RT Book, Section
T1 Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres : a contrastive corpus-based study
A1 Lavid López, María Julia
A1 Arús Hita, Jorge
A1 Moratón Gutiérrez, Lara
A2 Aijmer, Karin
A2 Altenberg, Bengt
AB This paper describes the thematic variation observed in two newspaper genres – news reports and commentaries – in English and Spanish and studies the influence of genre-specific and language-specific constraints on the observed variation. The study is based on the contrastive analysis of certain clausal and discourse-thematic features in a bilingual comparable corpus consisting of a total of thirty-two texts (sixteen news reports and sixteen commentaries), evenly divided into English and Spanish texts. The analysis shows that despite the language-specific features which can be observed in certain thematic selections at clause level, most of the clausal and discourse thematic differences in the material can be related to the different communicative purposes which characterize these two genres. In view of the similarities and statistically significant differences between the two genres in both languages, it is suggested that genre is the major factor affecting the thematic variation in the bilingual sample, while language-specific differences play a secondary role
PB John Benjamins Publishing Company
SN 9789027272324 (e-Book)
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/117067
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/117067
LA eng
NO Lavid, Julia, Arús, Jorge and Lara Moratón (2013). Thematic variation in English and Spanish Newspaper Genres: A Contrastive Corpus-based Study. In Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg (eds.) Advances in corpus-based contrastive linguistics. Studies in honour of Stig Johansson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
NO The CONTRANOT project is financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under R&D Research Projects Programme (reference number FFI2008-03384). Dr. Julia Lavid, as principal investigator, and the two co-authors of this paper, as members of the research group, gratefully acknowledge the support of the Spanish authorities.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 15 abr 2025