ESTUDIO CONTRASTIVO DE LA ELIPSIS EN INGLÉS TÉCNICO Y LITERARIO ESTUDIO CONTRASTIVO DE LA ELIPSIS EN INGLÉS TÉCNICO Y LITERARIO

Various studies have shown that reading comprehension is one of the most complex communicative skills for Spanish students, who have difficulties in accurately understanding the message conveyed in the written text, in particular in those cases in which the use of cohesion devices based on the princ...

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Main Authors: Asunción Jaime, Eva Mestre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2007-05-01
Series:Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas
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Online Access:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/rdlyla/article/view/700
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Summary:Various studies have shown that reading comprehension is one of the most complex communicative skills for Spanish students, who have difficulties in accurately understanding the message conveyed in the written text, in particular in those cases in which the use of cohesion devices based on the principle of "verbatim recoverability" is involved. One, and probably the most complex of such textual resources is ellipsis, as it lacks a distinctive mark in the text indicating the omission of some part of the information. The main objective of the present work is to gain a deeper understanding of the process of textual ellipsis through the comparative analysis of literary vs. technical texts for teaching purposes.<br>Diversos estudios han demostrado que la comprensi&oacute;n lectora es una de las destrezas ling&uuml;&iacute;sticas de mayor complejidad para nuestros estudiantes que tienen problemas a la hora de descifrar los recursos textuales que utiliza la lengua inglesa para transmitir el mensaje, basados en la econom&iacute;a del lenguaje. Parte de ese complejo entramado textual consiste en omitir algunas unidades de informaci&oacute;n que son recuperables del resto del discurso. Pero, dado que este recurso discursivo de la elisi&oacute;n carece de marca distintiva en el texto, su identificaci&oacute;n resulta m&aacute;s complicada que la de otros aspectos ret&oacute;ricos. Por ello hemos querido profundizar en la comprensi&oacute;n del proceso de elisi&oacute;n mediante un an&aacute;lisis comparativo de utilizaci&oacute;n de este recurso en ingl&eacute;s literario y cient&iacute;fico con fines fundamentalmente pedag&oacute;gicos.<br />
ISSN:1886-2438
1886-6298