When discourse matches syntax: on meta-informative centering theory and discourse coherence in the recent history of English

  1. Martínez Insua, Ana Elina
Revista:
IJES: international journal of English studies

ISSN: 1578-7044

Ano de publicación: 2011

Título do exemplar: New developments in corpus linguistics

Volume: 11

Número: 2

Páxinas: 97-118

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.6018/IJES/2011/2/149661 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Outras publicacións en: IJES: international journal of English studies

Resumo

Este artículo estudia cómo las construcciones con there pueden haber contribuido a la creación de coherencia discursiva a lo largo de la historia del inglés. Desde el marco teórico de la denominada Meta-Informative Centering Theory (MIC), exploraremos la posibilidad de establecer conexiones entre la estructura sintáctica estudiada y diversos tipos de transiciones entre centros de atención (Brennan, Friedman & Pollard, 1987). En última instancia, esto contribuirá a la mejor caracterización de la interacción entre las teorías MIC y Centering Theory, el orden de palabras y la estructura de la información en una lengua con orden de palabras rígido. El estudio de corpus que aquí se presenta se basa en datos extraídos de muestras de inglés oral y escrito correspondientes al periodo que va del Inglés Medio tardío al Inglés Contemporáneo. Los datos muestran la capacidad de las construcciones con there para funcionar bien como estructuras altamente coherentes que mantienen el tópico local previo, o bien como instrumentos para cambiar el centro de atención local.

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