2015
DOI: 10.35360/njes.348
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Intersubjective positioning and thematisation in English and Spanish: a contrastive analysis of letters to the editor

Abstract: This paper examines how writers of Letters to the editor exploit thematisation to project themselves into their discourse and to engage their audience in the English and the Spanish discourse communities. Using a bilingual comparable corpus of a total of eighty letters (forty English and forty Spanish) for analysis and a bilingual corpus of fifty newspaper reports and fifty editorials from British and Spanish newspapers for crossgenre comparison, we analyse the distribution of Stance and Engagement expressions… Show more

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