Verbal processes in English and Spanish: a functional perspective to research articles on discourse analysis
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https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148520208Keywords:
Verbal processes, Research articles, Discourse analysisAbstract
In this paper we present the results of an analysis of verbal processes and locution constructions in two corpora, one with papers from Anglophone journals, and one from Hispanophone ones. Our main interest was to build up a semantic-grammatical profile of how verbal and locution structures are constructed in the discipline of Discourse Analysis, and see if there were similarities and/or differences in the two corpora. The results showed that there are significant differences in terms of verbal process ratio, metaphoric locutions, most frequent verbal processes, and projection.Downloads
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