Topic and topicality in texta contrastive study of English and Spanish narrative texts

  1. Raquel Hildalgo
  2. Angela Downing 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Livre:
Contrastive Discourse Analysis: functional and corpus perspectives
  1. Maite Taboada (coord.)
  2. Susana Doval Suárez (coord.)
  3. Elsa González Álvarez (coord.)

Éditorial: Equinox

ISBN: 9781908049759

Année de publication: 2013

Pages: 183-207

Type: Chapitre d'ouvrage

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Résumé

In this chapter, topic and topicality are explored through the application of a model of analysis to a bilingual sample of English and Spanish written narrative texts in equivalent genres. The results of the analysis show that aboutness topics and frame-setting topics are cross-linguistically stable categories, although language-specific differences are found in the syntactic coding, for instance in how Spanish marks topicless sentences.

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