%0 Journal Article
%A Arús Hita, Jorge
%T Theme as point of departure in English and Spanish casual conversation : A contrastive study
%D 2022
%@ 2589-7233
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110269
%X This paper uses a trinocular approach – i.e. from below, from above and from roundabout – to describe Theme as point of departure (POD) in English and Spanish casual conversation (thus avoiding the more controversial ‘what-the-clause-is-about’ aspect of Theme). This research is part of a long-term contrastive study which includes the description of POD in academic writing and a crosslinguistic comparison of POD in academic writing and casual conversation. Among the main findings in this paper, the following stand out: a) the identification of a conversational texture characterized by the interplay of textual and interpersonal strands of meaning; and b) different POD arrangements of English and Spanish clauses in casual conversation, motivated by different ways of enacting communicative exchange.
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