Discourse structure in grammar.

• Autores: Joaquín Garrido Medina
• Localización: Estudios ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, ISSN 1133-0392, Nº 6, 1998, págs. 49-63
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Recent approaches in funetional granmiar favour either a separation of grammar and pragmatics, or an integration of discourse into a model including clauses, utterances and discourse moves. Both kinds of analysis show difficulties in relating syntactic units to pragmatie ones. A possible way to account for discourse structure is the concept of hypotaxis, as opposed to subordination, so that a conespondence between main or hypotactic clauses and discourse units may be established, as in rhe.torical structure theory. It is further argued that sentence structure itself is organized so that sentences may be linked one to anotiter within discourse structure.

    Tite analysis of Spanish sentence-initial que constructions shows that their sentence structure accounts for tite way each sentence is linked to others in various specific discourse struetures. As a result, granunar includes discourse structures, which are made up of sentences, whicli in tum make up text structure.