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... sample in Table 2 has allowed us to see the rather complex generic struc- ture of commentaries, very much in the line of Ansary and Babaii's ndings for newspaper editorials. In contrast, Spanish commentaries, as mentioned above, are less prone to the back-and-forth movement from move to move, which results in a simpler, more stable generic structure, as illustrated in Table 3, where we can see a smoother ow from move 1 to move 3. e fewer instances with less continuous ow typically involve the inclusion of evaluative elements, such as clauses (8) and (9), breaking the ow of move 2a. ...
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... As part of a larger project aimed at the multidimensional annotation of discourse features in English and Spanish (Lavid 2012), and of current work by the authors of this paper on the characterisation of newspaper genres through the analysis of their thematic selection and progression choices (Lavid et al. 2013;Moratón et al. 2012), in this paper we analyse how writers of English and Spanish Letters exploit thematisation to project themselves into their discourse and to engage their audience in the English and the Spanish discourse communities. In doing so, we hope to contribute to a fruitful line of research on contrastive aspects of newspaper discourse, in general, and to the linguistic characterization of the genre of Letters to the editor across languages and cultures, in particular. ...
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 cross-genre 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.
The paper describes the process of validating a reliable annotation scheme for the categories of Stance and Engagement in English and Spanish using a bilingual sample of English-Spanish journalistic texts extracted from the MULTINOT corpus (Lavid et al. 2015). The bilingual sample includes three different newspaper genres: news reports, editorials and letters to the editor. Following the generic annotation pipeline proposed by Hovy and Lavid (2010), the paper describes the different steps to validate an annotation scheme to capture the main features of Stance and Engagement and their realizations in English and Spanish. This includes the instantiation of the theoretical categories, the development of annotation guidelines and the performance of an inter-annotation agreement study on a small training corpus to measure the reliability of the proposed tags. The paper also describes the results of the annotation of a larger corpus using the validated scheme (Moratón 2015). This reveals interesting patterns of variation in the distribution of Stance and Engagement in the three newspaper genres, which can be fruitfully used for contrastive linguistic and computational purposes.
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