Humanistic Texts and Newspaper Articles: Linguistic Analysis
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Humanistic Texts
- Introduction: Humanistic matter relating to the social activity of man.
- Linguistic characterization
Subject and Structure
Subject: The core theme of the text.
Structure: Inductive or deductive.
Humanistic Discipline Characteristics
Objectivity: Allusion to personal perspectives. Morphosyntactic level: 3rd person singular, indicative mode, and restrictive grammatical structures such as relative clauses, sentences without an identifying agent, and denotative lexis.
Tendency to abstraction: Gnomic or timeless present; articles with generalizing value.
Accuracy and Clarity
Morphosyntactic Level: Relative clauses, clauses with commas and parentheses, lists of examples, restated terminology, and the presence of periphrasis of obligation.
Semantic Level: Abundance of adjectives that qualify the specified meaning.
Technicalities: The inclusion of specific terminology related to a science or branch of learning.
Composition: Cultured derivation. Frequent repetition of terms or supra-sentential connectors: causative, opposition, and additive.
- Conclusion: Emphasis on the objectivity of the text.
Newspaper Articles
- Location
- Subject
- Structure
- Headline: The title of the article.
- Lead/Participants: Technical sheet or summary in the case of a film or play.
- Body of Criticism: Division of the text into logical parts.
- Linguistic Analysis: Phonetic-graphic level, including the use of quotation marks.
Explanatory paragraphs between dashes or parentheses are used to add additional information.
Morphosyntactic and Lexical Levels
Morphosyntactic Level: Declarative sentences. Use of present indicative, preterite undefined, or historical present when comparing with previous works. Verb forms in the 1st person plural to indicate the involvement of the author. Use of noun phrases for extensive information. Constant use of determiners that update the substantive and the reality to which it refers. Abundant evaluative and cumulative adjectives.
Lexical Level: The emergence of positive or aggrandizing signs. Variety and lexical selection, ranging from colloquial expressions to cultured and sophisticated language.