Lara Moraton-Gutierrez

Complutense University of Madrid | UCM · Department of English Philology

This paper provides a corpus-based comparative study of the relationship between global discourse structure, rhetorical relations and thematic patterns in a bilingual corpus of written journalistic texts belonging to three different genres (letters to the editor, editorials and reports) in English and Spanish. Previous corpus-based analyses of news...

This chapter reports on the contrastive analysis of interpersonal discourse markers (IDMs) in a sample of English and Spanish newspaper texts in three genres: news reports, editorials and letters to the editor. The sample was divided into a training dataset of eighteen (English-Spanish) comparable texts and a larger dataset of 220 texts, divided in...

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...

The work reported in this paper is part of a larger research effort within the MULTINOT project (Lavid et al. 2015), focused on the multidimensional annotation of a register-diversified bilingual corpus of comparable and parallel English and Spanish texts with lexicogrammatical, semantic and discourse features with the aim of developing a multifunc...

Thematization is recognized as a fundamental phenomenon in the construction of messages and texts by different linguistic schools. This location within a text privileges the elements that guide the reader in the orientation and interpretation of discourse at different levels. Thematizing a linguistic unit by locating it in the first-initial positio...

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 n...

In this paper we focus on the contrastive corpus annotation of certain aspects of the phenomena of Thematisation, on the one hand, and of Modality, on the other, in the framework of the CONTRANOT project, a research effort aimed at the creation and validation of contrastive functional descriptions through corpus analysis and annotation. Our most im...

In this paper we present the preliminary results of an empirical study designed to test contrastive features of the category of Theme in English and Spanish through corpus analysis and manual annotation. Using as our theoretical basis the more general features of the model of thematisation proposed in Lavid, Arus and Zamorano (2010), the study desc...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the clausal thematic features observed in two newspaper genres —news reports and commentaries— can be interpreted as textual signals of their different generic characterization. This is done through the qualitative and quantitative analysis of a sample consisting of thirty-three English texts, divided int...

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p>This paper describes a methodology which combines the use of original comparable texts and bidirectional translations for the contrastive study of linguistic phenomena. The methodology is based on the following procedures: (1) analysis of the preferred linguistic choices in original comparable texts; (2) analysis of the preferred linguistic choic...