Actual processes in the Spanish journalist discourse: Grammar and Syntax

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Grammar and Context in Functional Discourse Grammar

This article presents a proposal for the organization of the Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar. A guiding principle in this proposal is that, given the fact that Functional Discourse Grammar is a theory of grammar, the Contextual Component should provide the information that is necessary for a proper functioning of the grammar rather than aim at an exhaustive specification of...

Egocentricity in Discourse and Syntax

Acquisition of copulas ser and estar in Spanish: learning lexico-semantics, syntax and discourse

Although there are a very large number of proposals in the literature to account for the complex distribution of the copulas ser and estar in Spanish and Portuguese (Bello 1951; Gili Gaya 1955; Querido 1976; Luján 1981; Lema 1995; Schmitt 1992, 2004; Maienborn 2000, 2003), very little is known about children’s acquisition of these two highly frequent copula verbs. The only acquisition study we ...

Discourse Analysis and Grammar

The Verb Group Traditionally the verb group was studied following the Latin model of analysis, that is, it was classified according to the “tense”: Present Simple, Present Progressive, Past Simple, Past Progressive, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Future and so on. This type of classification, although familiar to the Spanish learner, is confusing in the sense that it makes each tense an isolate...