Linguistic Connectors and Textual Analysis Elements

Linguistic Connectors: Classification and Usage

Additives

• Continuative: and, also, even, including cough, moreover, still, too.
• Distributive: neither... nor, or, on the other hand, some... others.
• Order: to start, until now, check before, at this moment, now, now that, where, until then, finally, in short, in fact, generally.

Contrastive Connectors

• Concessive: even that, although, much by little, all that, though.
• Adversative: but, however, on the contrary, that and everything.

Disjunctive Connectors

• Reformulation: or, well, either, that is, in effect, by the way.
• Exemplification: for example, and as such, in short.

Consecutive and Comparative Connectors

• Causal: because, since, to.
• Consecutive: therefore, so that, then.
• Conditionals: if, if, unless, whereas, while that, with that condition.
• Purpose (Ends): so that, to that end, so.
• Comparison: more... than, less... than, so... that, just as.

Sentence Structure and Clause Types

Coordinated Clauses (O.coordinada)

• Copulative: i.
• Disjunctive: o.
• Adversative: pero.
• Distributive: now... now.
• Continuative: a month.

Subordinate Clauses (O.subordinada)

Identification of grammatical functions:

• Subject: (It)
• Direct Object (CD): ('I)
• Indirect Object (CI): ('ls)
• Attribute: (it)
• CRV: (there)
• Agent: (passive)

Complements and Adverbials

• Adjective Complement: name and I like the idea... that help me (from your opinion aid) (your love).
• Adjectives: (fun).
• Adverbial Circumstantial:
  • Place (there)
  • Time (then)
  • Manner (adequately)
• Adverbial Non-Circumstantial:
  • Concessive: although, because.
  • Concessive: so that.
  • Conditional: if.
  • Final: so that.
  • Comparative: such as, more... more...

Textual Analysis and Cohesion Mechanisms

Macro Structure

Focuses on the overall organization:

• Main and secondary ideas.
• Thesis (Analytic / Synthetic).

Micro Structure and Cohesion

Mechanisms ensuring textual unity:

• Deixis:
  • Staff: Subjectivity / Impersonal (objectivity, 3rd person).
  • Social: Vostè.
  • Spatial: Adverb of place (this, that, there, here...).
  • Temporal: Adverb of time, present, future, past.
• Reference: Anaphora / Cataphora.
• Connectors.
• Lexical Reference Mechanisms: Semantic field, synonymy, blogging.

Textual Fitness and Register

• Fitness (Context): Scope (academic, journalistic, literary).
• Register: Standard, technical, conversational.
• Textual Genre: Academic / journalistic / literary.

Text Purpose and Functions

• Text Purpose: To inform / guide.
• Functions: Representative, Emotive (touching), Conative (Appellate), Phatic (Amanda Tapping), Poetic, Metalinguistic.

Modalization and Rhetorical Resources

• Modalization: Evaluating items (Nouns, Adjectives).
• Resources: Graphic resources, parentheses, dashes, changing sign up, rhetoric, irony.
• Style: Direct or indirect.
• Personal Opinion.