Linguistic strategies referring to politicians in the Spanish written press: an analysis of appositive constructions
This article proposes an empirical study on the naming strategies when referring to politicians. More precisely, our analysis is based on a corpus of journalistic articles in contemporary Spanish and gathers a homogeneous set of so-called loose appositive constructions referring to politicians....
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Cádiz
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Pragmalingüística |
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| Online Access: | http://localhost:8888/ojs-uca.3.3.x/index.php/pragma/article/view/210 |
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| Summary: | This article proposes an empirical study on the naming strategies when referring to politicians. More precisely, our analysis is based on a corpus of journalistic articles in contemporary Spanish and gathers a homogeneous set of so-called loose appositive constructions referring to politicians. The aim of the study is to provide a structured analysis of the linguistic features of the appositive constructions collected in our database. We will argue that the 1084 appositive constructions examined present a predicational relationship. We distinguish between three types of predicational appositive constructions: specificational, attributional, and identificational constructions. Together with a description of the syntactic and semantic characteristics of these constructions, we also examine their informative role in journalistic articles. More precisely, we consider how syntax reflects a di_erent semantic content and a di_erent discourse function.
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| ISSN: | 1133-682X 2445-3064 |