Lingüística aplicada

There is a growing concern about the poor quality of the writing of children and teenagers because of the continuous and constant exposure to the new technologies. Increasingly parents complain that their children spend too much time with their phones, tablets, computers, video games, etc. There is also an increase in the number of teachers who complain about their students’ writing skills. Some of the most prominent criticisms are loss of[Leer más]

The main purpose of this study is to conduct a contrastive analysis on a corpus of Swedish and Spanish family conversations with respect to two adjacency pairs: opinion-agreement/disagreement (OADs) and offer-acceptance/rejection (OARs). On one hand, from a structural perspective, based on the methodology of Conversation Analysis, one of the objectives is to observe how (dis)preferred turns of the OADs and OARs are managed by the interlocutors.[Leer más]

This article describes a new method to identify and extract phraseological units from textual corpora. There are different methods of classification of phraseological units, but we have to highlight the ones proposed by Corpas Pastor (1996). This author, starting from a wide conception of phraseology, classifies Spanish's phraseologisms in three different categories: collocations, locutions and phraseological enunciated units (fixed forms[Leer más]

Partiendo de ocho conversaciones en español como lengua materna (ELM) y ocho conversaciones en español como lengua extranjera (ELE) de estudiantes finlandeses, la tesis analiza el desarrollo temático del núcleo de la conversación en ambos tipos de interacciones. Concretamente, los fenómenos conversacionales estudiados vienen representados por el mecanismo de cambio de tema secuencial, las secuencias temáticas que conforman el núcleo de la[Leer más]

Varios estudios realizados en las últimas décadas del siglo XX y las primeras del XXI demuestran que el futuro simple en español (cantaré) está en pleno retroceso en Hispanoamérica y en el resto de zonas peninsulares para la expresión de eventos prospectivos frente a la forma perifrástica IR A + INFINITIVO (voy a cantar). Algunos estudios que lo reafirman son los de Miró y Pineda, 1990; Gómez Manzano, 1992; Almeida y Díaz, 1998; Troya Déniz,[Leer más]