Tense ocurrence in economic and bussines journalistic articles compared to general-topic ones
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Tense ocurrence in economic and bussines journalistic articles compared to general-topic onesAutoria
Data de publicació
1996Editor
Universitat Jaume IISSN
1139-5486Tipus de document
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The choice of tenses in discourse on the part of its producer responds , among other factors, to the
rhetorical function that lies beyond the writer’s or the speaker’s words. However, it would be wrong to
think that ... [+]
The choice of tenses in discourse on the part of its producer responds , among other factors, to the
rhetorical function that lies beyond the writer’s or the speaker’s words. However, it would be wrong to
think that a piece of written discourse, an article in this case, can be identified with a specific rhetorical
function. On the contrary, many different rhetorical functions can occur coherently in a single article. We
can only consider a rhetorical function as dominant, if it really is, when we analyse the different parts of
the article. In fact it is by means of these rhetorical functions that we can attempt a coherent division of
an article into parts. In this sense, this paper aims at a study of the occurrence of tenses in six articles of
approximately the same extension. Three of the articles correspond to business and economic contents,
whereas the other three talk about topics of general interest. Tense occurrence has been analysed in two
different ways : in the first place, all the articles have been divided into different parts according to the
rhetorical function which proved dominant in each case and tenses have been counted in each part.
Secondly, tense occurrence has been compared in economic and general articles. It goes without saying
that the number of different tenses in the article is going to be the same from both perspectives. Therefore,
the aim of this paper is to compare economic and general articles in terms of tense occurrence in an
attempt to throw some light upon the question of whether tense choice is more dependent on subject
matter or on rhetorical function. Moreover, we will be referring to the pedagogical implications related to
the conclusions. [-]
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Segones Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la FCHS (Any 1996-1997)
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Fòrum de recerca nº 2,1996-1997Drets d'accés
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