Topic and topicality in text: a contrastive study of English and Spanish narrative texts

• Raquel Hildalgo ; Angela Downing ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Complutense Madrid
• Localización: Contrastive Discourse Analysis: functional and corpus perspectives / coord. por Maite Taboada, Susana María Doval Suárez, Elsa González Alvarez, 2013, ISBN 9781908049759, págs. 183-207
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this chapter, topic and topicality are explored through the application of a model of analysis to a bilingual sample of English and Spanish written narrative texts in equivalent genres. The results of the analysis show that aboutness topics and frame-setting topics are cross-linguistically stable categories, although language-specific differences are found in the syntactic coding, for instance in how Spanish marks topicless sentences.