RT Generic
T1 Comparing thematic features in English and Spanish:A functional analysis of two newspaper genres
A1 Moratón Gutiérrez, Lara
AB AbstractThis study is a contrastive description of the clausal thematic features which characterize two newspaper genres -news articles and editorials- in English and Spanish with the aim to determine whether the choices are due to language-specific or to genre specific constraints. The sample used for the study consists of a comparable sample of thirty two texts, sixteen in English and sixteen in Spanish, collected along a number of external and internal criteria to ensure generic, registerial and text type comparability in both languages. The contrastive analysis focuses on three main thematic features: (1) the experiential elements selected as Thematic Heads, (2) the textual and  nterpersonal thematic choices; (3) the syntactic features of the Thematic Heads and Pre-heads. The results of the analysis indicate that, though there are some language-specific tendencies, genre-specific constrains seem to be the determining factor in the selection and syntactic realization of the thematic features of the two newspaper genres investigated in this study.
YR 2009
FD 2009-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/46536
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/46536
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 30 ago 2025