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Benn, Keith Laurence – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1991
This study analyzes the discourse structures of one text type in Central Bontoc, one of eight minority Philippine languages. The text explains the Innana rituals, a complex of six rituals held annually in Bontoc villages shortly after the planting of the rice crop. The rituals are considered extremely important because they are believed to help…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing, Folk Culture
Carranza, Isolda – 1992
The starting point of this thesis is the hypothesis that in Spanish there are conventionalized expressions that signal both the articulation of text parts and the speaker's attitude towards the utterance. "Pragmatic Expressions" (PEs) are fixed lexical forms that contribute to text creation in relation to the context of enunciation, are oriented…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns