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The study of discourse presentation in children's narratives has been limited to the analysis of direct and indirect speech (reported speech). Thus, other useful structures for narrating and presenting speech, thought, and writing have not been yet considered. This paper aims to account for the diversity in children's narratives, as well as demonstrate the applicability of a stylistic-literary analysis model of fictional narrative prose to the study of elicited narratives. We use an elicited corpus composed of twenty narratives in Spanish produced by young schoolchildren during a guided retelling task. The results show the stylistic diversity of this corpus and support the use of this model in the stylistic analysis of elicited narratives. This approach introduces a broader way of studying language development though the observation of style in narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The particle pues has received special attention from studies on conversational discourse markers since it has great polyfunctionality. This paper describes the pragmatic functions of the discursive marker pues found in the PRESEEA-Cali corpus and contrasts the results with other studies on pues in other varieties of speech in Colombia and other countries. We analyzed 2262 samples of pues from 36 sociolinguistic interviews. The results reveal that pues is a polyfunctional marker that is present in all types of discourse, that it has two main pragmatic functions, a total of 10 subfunctions, and of these, the most frequent are those of delaying the discourse, the commentator, and the continuative. Although the functions and subfunctions found had already been reported for pues in other Spanish-speaking communities, so the Caleño-speaking1 community does not seem to make particular use of this marker, a contrastive analysis with published results on the use of this marker in Medellín and Santiago de Chile shows similar patterns in terms of functions and frequencies with the first variety and differences with respect to the second. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, two guidelines published in the context of COVID-19 pandemic are comparatively analyzed. The objective is to show the ways of the discursiveness regulation and the orientation of those recommendations on language, from a glotopolitical perspective. WHO-PAHO and the Colombian Government were in charge of these issues aimed at the sectors in charge of managing the health emergency. The analysis combines a lexicometric exploration of lexical associations and concordances with inductive inferential interpretive procedures. The results show that the change from the discourse of risk to the discourse of harm reorients the regulations on communication towards the discipline of public and private saying. It is concluded that the type of language used by public health institutions replaces the explanations and analysis required in these circumstances and unifies the points of view through a deeply political discourse that, however, does not seem to be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper briefly presents the foundations and developments of CDS (critical discourse studies), with the objective of recognizing the role of discourse, cognition and society in the explanation of the processes that are discursively implied in exercises of social exclusion, inequality and injustice. We will also offer the reader a bibliography for further research in the most recent perspectives of this line of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]