1. Discourse-organizational patterns in English and Spanish.
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de los Ángeles Gómez González, María and García Varela, Ana Patricia
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DISCOURSE , *FUNCTIONAL linguistics , *THEMATIC analysis , *RHETORICAL analysis , *ENGLISH language , *SPANISH language , *PRESS - Abstract
Cast within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this paper sheds new light on the 'thematic management' of discourse and its interaction with 'rhetorical management' in particular, by exploring how the interplay between thematic structure and thematic progression is instantiated in a specific genre, news reports, in English and Spanish. The study shows that, even though there exist a number of differences that are language-determined, genre constraints seem to exert a greater influence because, generally speaking, English and Spanish news reports show greater similarities than differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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