Object-oriented perception: towards a contrastive approach to evidentiality in media discourse

Abstract

This paper is a corpus-based study of the evidential realisations of object-oriented perception verbs in English and Spanish written and oral media discourse. The main aim of the study is to analyse and compare the different uses and complementation patterns taken by the English words look and sound and their Spanish counterparts se ve and suena. The procedure followed involves a contrastive analysis methodology: (i) description of data, (ii) juxtaposition and (iii) contrast. The data has been taken from oral and written media discourse corpora in English and Spanish. The study has revealed interesting similarities and differences in the uses and complementation patterns adopted by object-oriented perception verbs in both written and oral English and Spanish, thus making a contribution to a debate in which Spanish has been obviated to date. Keywords: evidentiality, object-oriented perception, media discourse Percepción orientada al objeto: hacia una aproximación contrastiva a la evidencialidad en el discurso mediático ResumenEste trabajo consiste en un análisis de corpus de las diferentes realizaciones de los verbos de percepción tipo "object-oriented" en el discurso periodístico oral y escrito en inglés y español. El objetivo fundamental es analizar y comparar los diferentes usos y patrones de complementación que adoptan look y sound y sus correspondientes formas españolas se ve y suena. El procedimiento seguido para tal fin está basado en una metodología 1 This paper reports on work resulting from the EVIDISPRAG Project (FFI2015-65474-P). 83contrastiva: (i) descripción de los datos, (ii) juxtaposición y (iii) comparación. Los datos han sido extraídos de corpora periodísticos orales y escritos en inglés y español. El estudio revela interesantes similitudes y diferencias en los usos y patrones de complementación seguidos por los verbos de percepción objeto de estudio tanto en inglés como en español, lo que implica una contribución significativa a un debate en el que el español no ha sido plenamente incorporado hasta la fecha.Palabras clave: evidencialidad, verbos de percepción orientados al objeto, discurso periodístico

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