ISSN: 0185-2647
La descripción en el discurso de divulgación científica
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Keywords

narrative procedure
descriptive sequences
narrative sequences
reported speech
popular Science

How to Cite

La descripción en el discurso de divulgación científica. (2016). Estudios De Lingüística Aplicada, 48. https://doi.org/10.22201/enallt.01852647p.2008.48.559

Abstract

This paper deals with a little studied topic in the analysis of popular scientific discourse: the description. The objective is to delimit in a qualitative analysis the descriptive sequential organization in a corpus composed of six Mexican articles of popular science. To do this it was necessary to delimit the descriptive sequences; the narrative sequences and the sequences of reported speech; using criteria set forth by Charaudeau (1992); J. M. Adam & C. U. Lorda (1999); and J. M. Adam (2000). The results show that in this corpus “description” predominates (55.52%). Referred discourse represents 22.42% of the corpus and is clearly used as a strategy for establishing credibility; while the narrative sequences represent only 15.74%. These results suggest a hypothesis for further research: that is; the more homogeneous the public for scientific popularization; the smaller the space dedicated to description and; by contrast; the more heterogeneous the public; the greater the space given over to description.
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