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Over - And Understatements In Bishop Czaja’s Pastoral Letter To His Diocesans
2020
The Catholic Church is the largest religious faction in Poland, the country being organisationally divided into church dioceses governed by bishops. The letter by the bishop of Opole, Andrzej Czaja may be read in more than one way. One of them is the bona fide (i.e., good faith) one, the reading which assumes his sincerity, presumably the one that had been intended by the author for his diocesans to use. The other is less cooperative and sees some cases of over- and understatements in the text. This can be linguistically studied using the pragmatic theories of H.P. Grice and G.N. Leech. The present paper addresses both these readings as they fit into a global picture. Every lay person is to…
Communicative Functions of Hashtags
2018
Abstract Despite the initial function of hashtags as tools for sorting and aggregating information according to topics, the social media currently witness a diversity of uses diverging from the initial purpose. The aim of this article is to investigate the communicative functions of hashtags through a combined approach of literature review, field study and case study. Different uses of hashtags were subjected to semantic analysis in order to disclose generalizable trends. As a result, ten communicative functions were identified: topic-marking, aggregation, socializing, excuse, irony, providing metadata, expressing attitudes, initiating movements, propaganda and brand marketing. These findin…
Estudio de variación en el uso de atenuación I: Hacia una descripción de patrones dialectales y sociolectales de la atenuación en español
2020
Resumen La atenuación es un fenómeno pragmático de gran complejidad que se ha convertido en objeto de estudio priorizado en las últimas décadas, en las que se ha abordado, especialmente, desde disciplinas que trabajan con el habla, como la pragmática y el análisis del discurso. Uno de los aspectos menos trabajado en relación con las estrategias de atenuación en español, no obstante, es la variabilidad sociopragmática y geolectal en usos y recursos de atenuación. Este último es el cometido fundamental de este trabajo -que se complementa con la investigación presentada en el artículo de Albelda y Cestero (en este mismo volumen, 2020)-, en el que se pretende dar cuenta del estado actual de la …
Autobiographical texts written by learners of Catalan as an Additional Language: From formative needs to reflection in the teaching of narrative genr…
2022
In this article we analyse autobiographical narrative texts written by university students studying Catalan as an Additional Language at a CEFR (2020) B1 level. The goal is to analyse the formative needs related to the writing of this genre in order to foster metadiscursive reflection in the classroom that will allow students to improve their written output. To this end, we analyzed a corpus of 39 autobiographies at both the macrotextual level (i.e., rhetorical moves) and the microtextual level (i.e., deictic elements which channel the narrative’s organization). Our results show that the problems that these texts present for students are related to awareness of the elements that define the …