Discourse and Grammar - DIGRAM

Reference of the Group:

GIUV2017-385

 
Description of research activity:
The DIGRAM group focuses its research activity on the analysis of grammatical aspects with a relevant discursive projection from a perspective that includes and goes beyond the study of text grammar and textual cohesion. Specifically, he has worked and continues to work on connectors and discourse markers in general from a descriptive and contrastive perspective (basically contrasting Catalan with English and Spanish and, occasionally, with other Romance languages), the use of demonstratives, the function of encapsulating nouns or the pragmatic functions of verba dicendi in discourse, among others, in discursive construction. These textual aspects are related to discourse genre and channel. The research is based on oral corpus of political discourse (electoral debate and parliamentary debate), conversation and semi-directed interview (CUBO and JEFE of the UB) and written corpus, such as novels or the Corpus Textual Informatizado de la Lengua Catalana (IEC), depending on the aspect under study. We have been collaborating for years with the GREPAD group at the UB (http://www.ub.edu/grepad/). Currently, M. J. Cuenca is working on the project Polarization and Digital Discourses:...The DIGRAM group focuses its research activity on the analysis of grammatical aspects with a relevant discursive projection from a perspective that includes and goes beyond the study of text grammar and textual cohesion. Specifically, he has worked and continues to work on connectors and discourse markers in general from a descriptive and contrastive perspective (basically contrasting Catalan with English and Spanish and, occasionally, with other Romance languages), the use of demonstratives, the function of encapsulating nouns or the pragmatic functions of verba dicendi in discourse, among others, in discursive construction. These textual aspects are related to discourse genre and channel. The research is based on oral corpus of political discourse (electoral debate and parliamentary debate), conversation and semi-directed interview (CUBO and JEFE of the UB) and written corpus, such as novels or the Corpus Textual Informatizado de la Lengua Catalana (IEC), depending on the aspect under study. We have been collaborating for years with the GREPAD group at the UB (http://www.ub.edu/grepad/). Currently, M. J. Cuenca is working on the project Polarization and Digital Discourses: Critical and Socio-Cognitive Perspectives (PODDS) at the UAM.
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Scientific-technical goals:
  • L'objectiu general del grup es l'analisi d'aspectes gramaticals i textuals amb una projeccio discursiva i com incideixen en la coherencia i l'adequacio textuals. Aquest objectiu es concreta en diversos objectius especifics:
  • a) Estudiar els limits entre els mecanismes de referencia i els de connexio, analizant la creacio de unitats connectives a partir de unitats lexiques o de naturalesa referencial.
  • b) Analitzar el funcionament dels noms encapsuladors i els verba dicendi com a elements clau en la sequenciacio discursiva i en la integracio de diferents plans enunciatius, respectivament.
  • c) Aprofundir en la funcio modalitzadora dels marcadors del discurs, els marcadors modals i els noms encapsuladors com a estrategia persuasiva de subjectivacio o d'objectivacio de la informacio.
  • d) Estudiar marques i estrategies linguistiques amb un valor argumentatiu i ideologic marcat.
 
Research lines:
  • Analysis of connectives and discourse markers.Study of the functioning of connectors, interjections and discourse markers in Catalan from a descriptive and contrastive perspective (structural and functional, lexicographical, discursive and textual organisation aspects).
  • Phoric text cohesion.Analysis of phoric mechanisms of textual cohesion: textual demonstratives, encapsulating nouns and endophoric mechanisms of cohesion. Functioning, discursive projection and relationship with discourse markers.
  • Verbs of saying in discourse.Pragmatic functions of verba dicendi in discourse.
 
Group members:
Name Nature of participation Entity Description
M JOSEP CUENCA ORDIÑANADirectorUniversitat de València
Research team
JOSEP ENRIC RIBERA I CONDOMINAMemberUniversitat de València
 
CNAE:
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Associated structure:
  • Inter-univ. Institute for Valencian Language Studies (IFIV)
 
Keywords:
  • connectors; marcadors del discurs; interjeccions
  • cohesió; mecanismes fòrics; demostratius; encapsuladors
  • verba dicendi; discurs citat; polifonia