RT Journal Article
T1 Theme as point of departure in English and Spanish casual conversation : A contrastive study
A1 Arús Hita, Jorge
AB 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.
PB John Benjamins Publishing Company
SN 2589-7233
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110269
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110269
LA eng
NO Arús Hita, Jorge. «Theme as Point of Departure in English and Spanish Casual Conversation : A Contrastive Study». Language, Context and Text, vol. 4, n.º 2, 2022, pp. 197-226. www.jbe-platform.com, https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.21009.aru.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025