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Linguistic "themes". Agent figurative construction and its relationship with thematization. The aim of this work is to analyze agentivity in language, the processes through which language is grammaticalized in a text/discourse and, especially, its relationship with the complex phenomenon o...
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| description | Linguistic "themes". Agent figurative construction and its relationship with thematization. The aim of this work is to analyze agentivity in language, the processes through which language is grammaticalized in a text/discourse and, especially, its relationship with the complex phenomenon of thematicity. Taking Cognitive Linguistics and its ruling principles --iconicity, prominence and accessibility- as a theoretical and methodological framework, we shall demonstrate how significant correlations between thematic syntagms and agent arguments may be established. Besides, after observing, analyzing and interpreting such correlations we shall posit a set of conceptual features and some specific textual/discursive strategies that will allow us to expound the dynamics present between both themes and agents. Finally, by means of a gradient or scale, we shall establish an alternative way to assess noun syntagms within a text/discourse, thus proving that the higher the agentive value that may be assigned to each one of them, the higher their possibility of reaching textual/discursive traits of superior hierarchy, that is, they will have the possibility to have access to a higher status in the representational levels and, consequently, they will contribute in a greater degree to the construction of the conveyed meaning. (Spanish text). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4e585c62b1764ec68665891cde50328f2022-12-22T01:56:33ZcatUniversitat de LLeidaSintagma0214-91412003-12-01154360LosAndrea CucattoLinguistic "themes". Agent figurative construction and its relationship with thematization. The aim of this work is to analyze agentivity in language, the processes through which language is grammaticalized in a text/discourse and, especially, its relationship with the complex phenomenon of thematicity. Taking Cognitive Linguistics and its ruling principles --iconicity, prominence and accessibility- as a theoretical and methodological framework, we shall demonstrate how significant correlations between thematic syntagms and agent arguments may be established. Besides, after observing, analyzing and interpreting such correlations we shall posit a set of conceptual features and some specific textual/discursive strategies that will allow us to expound the dynamics present between both themes and agents. Finally, by means of a gradient or scale, we shall establish an alternative way to assess noun syntagms within a text/discourse, thus proving that the higher the agentive value that may be assigned to each one of them, the higher their possibility of reaching textual/discursive traits of superior hierarchy, that is, they will have the possibility to have access to a higher status in the representational levels and, consequently, they will contribute in a greater degree to the construction of the conveyed meaning. (Spanish text).http://www.sintagma-online.udl.cat/imatges/pdf/2003c.pdfagentthemecognitive principlesgrammaticalizationcausation |
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