RT Journal Article
T1 Intersubjective positioning and thematisation in English and Spanish: a contrastive analysis of letters to the editor
A1 Lavid López, María Julia
A1 Moratón Gutiérrez, Lara
A2 Aijmer, Karin
A2 Hasselgård, Hilde
AB ABSTRACT: This paper examines how writers of Letters to the editor exploit thematisation to project themselves into their discourse and to engage their audience in the English and the Spanish discourse communities. Using a bilingual comparable corpus of a total of eighty letters (forty English and forty Spanish) for analysis and a bilingual corpus of fifty newspaper reports and fifty editorials from British and Spanish newspapers for crossgenre comparison, we analyse the distribution of Stance and Engagement expressions in thematic position and the preferred thematic types conflating with these expressions in both languages. The analysis reveals a number of specific preferences in the use of those expressions, which sheds light on the features of Letters to the editor in English and Spanish. It also reveals that despite the broadly similar audience and sources of the three newspaper genres, authors structure their interactions very differently, contributing to their rhetorical distinctiveness.
PB Nordic Association for English Studies
SN 1502-7694
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108611
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108611
LA eng
NO Lavid, Julia and Lara Moratón. 2015. “Intersubjective positioning and thematisation in English and Spanish: a contrastive analysis of letters to the editor.” Nordic Journal of English Studies 14(1):289-319. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.348
DS Docta Complutense
RD 12 abr 2025