Clefting in journalistc texts

• Autores: Lidia Gómez García
• Localización: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource] / María Losada Friend (ed. lit.), Pilar Ron Vaz (ed. lit.), Sonia Hernández Santano (ed. lit.), Jorge Casanova García (ed. lit.), 2007, ISBN 978-84-96826-31-1
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper intends to analyse the frequency in use of three types of cleft constructions (it-clefts, wh-clefts and reversed wh-clefts) in Present-Day American English (AmE) and Present-Day British English (BrE) journalistic texts using an own-made corpus of around 100,000 words. This corpus is composed of texts extracted from two online newspapers: The New York Times and The Times. I will try to provide a brief account of the different syntactic and pragmatic behaviour of these constructions in the register represented by the corpus and, besides, to compare, when ever possible, the results obtained with those provided by Biber et al. (1999).