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60luis martin santos: tiempo de silencio juan benet: volveras a region- una meditacion fco umbral:balada d gamberros-... Continue reading "Drumasota" »

Understanding the Narrative Genre

The narrative is the story of a series of events told by a fictitious entity called the narrator. The narrative genre is manifested in two major ways: the short story (with few characters, little description, and a focus on the outcome) and the novel. In the communication process of the narrative, there is a real sender (author) and a dummy issuer (narrator), who creates a fictional world delivered to the recipient.

Historical Narrative Forms

• Epic Poetry: Oral songs that narrate the exploits of warriors or gods.
• Epic: Narrative poems that tell of human actions and characters worthy of being remembered (e.g., La Araucana, The Odyssey).
• Song of Deeds: Medieval literary works that tell the heroic legends of a village

* Rhetorical: there is a shortage of rhetorical. Emphasizes the use of the rhetorical question above all the incomprehensible and absurd hyperbole Gregor.La situation appears frequently intensifies situations and providing more tension and drama. Symbols can be analyzed from the standpoint of rhetoric, some of them are: "The darkness of the room that is increasingly Gregor intensifies = degradation. The sun rising in the end is a new beginning for the family. "The insect represents the state of alienation, but also the state of protection or isolation by the shell. -Gregor does not want to eat human and animal refuses food, there is one food you want but can not guess what. It is interpreted as the spiritual quest. "Hindered communication:... Continue reading "Rhetorical devices in The Metamorphosis" »

Primary and secondary themes. The work presents the situation as the main theme of social injustice suffered some servants by their masters. The former is an humble and poor peasants, with total submission abiding abuse cacique class. The lords exercising a despotism so aberrant and selfish end. Delibes faces two ways of understanding the world and two conceptions of the relationship between man and nature. Life has passed the servants always in direct contact with the earth. The link of the lords with nature lies in its ownership and possession. Delibes faces two conflicting worlds, the natural order, associated with rural life and the chaos associated with urban culture. From a thematic point of view, the novel has four main lines: Development... Continue reading "The Holy Innocents, Miguel Delibes" »

Compliance is the property for which a text is adapted wing situation in which communication occurs and meets the intent of the sender successfully. An appropriate text must meet 2 conditions:
-The language should be adjusted to appropriate level of formality, both in terms of vocabulary and other linguistic structures.
-The general structure of the text should respond to the text type that best s'adiqui with the intention of the sender comunativa in each case.
Consistency is the property for which a text contains quality information and well-organized.
- Select the ideas of the text. should be clear from the outset the subject that gives unity and meaning to the text and therefore selects the IDEs that would trasmentre.
-Organize ideas.... Continue reading "Adequacy, coherence, cohesion" »

Information Condensation Techniques

Nominalization Explained

Nominalization is a process that transforms a sentence's information into a noun or a nominal phrase. Nominalization can express more meaning within less space and using fewer words.

Linguistic Transformations: Nominalization Example

Nominalization involves a series of linguistic transformations. The statement «Laura and Michael met by chance. Thus, they felt very happy.» explains a situation. But it is not the only way to say it. If we say: «The chance meeting of Laura and Michael brought happiness.», we convey the same information but more concisely. We used two nominalizations. This has allowed us to condense two sentences or propositions into one. In short, the verb structure... Continue reading "Nominalization and Verb Tense Usage in Text Structure" »

Textual Cohesion and Modalization in Discourse

This text is characterized by textual cohesion, as its ideas and statements are linked through different mechanisms to comment. | | | First, we highlight the i.e., insistence (the term "strike") keyword writing that is repeated several times. | | | The author refers to this concept through lexical coreference, i.e., by other words or expressions that emphasize the same idea: (..).

Lexical-Semantic Mechanisms

Lexical-semantic mechanisms — keywords, synonyms and coreferential expressions — appear throughout the text. There is mention of place names (Paris (France's capital)) and the presence of terms belonging to a semantic field or conceptual field | | | Morphosyntactic: the predominance of one... Continue reading "Textual Cohesion and Modalization in Discourse Analysis" »

Lingïísticos signs (units of language) divide their time in various, components that are studied in various fields of linguistics. These components are linked together, combine or unite to give rise to larger units. Thus we see that the various phonemes (sound units) meet to give rise to combinations of sounds that allow recognition of different concepts, training of all signs that constitute language.

In the field of morphology (the study of word formation), these smaller units are called monemes.

The combination of monemes will result in the formation of different words.

So that the linguistic sign (the word) comes from a double joint, a joint or combined sound (phoneme) meaningless and another that provides meaning (monemes).

To be clear,