PRAGMATIC DISCOURSE MARKERS IN ORAL
NARRATIVE: THE CASE OF ENGLISH AND CATALAN

Cum Laude
Montserrat González Condom
UNIVERSITY: Central de Barcelona
DEPARTMENT: English and German Philology
Supervisor: M. Teresa Turell

ABSTRACT:
The aim of this dissertation is twofold. On the one hand, to show that discourse markers are multifunctional units that serve a number of functions and play different roles at the ideational, rhetorical, sequential, and inferential levels of discourse, and on the other, that their specific use is genre-bound. This study involves a detailed analysis of pragmatic markers in English and Catalan narrative structure, and a contrastive analysis of their specific uses in both languages. The main contribution of this thesis has been to propose the integration of pragmatic markers within a discourse coherence model. Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Frame; The Role of Discourse Markers in Narrative; The Study; Part II: Pragmatic Markers in Narrative Structure; The Articulation of Narrative: English and Catalan Structural Differences; Pragmatic Markers in Narrative Structure; Pragmatic Markers in English Narrative Structure; Pragmatic Markers in Catalan Narrative Structure; Contrastive Analysis of English and Catalan Pragmatic Markers; Conclusions.

YEAR: 1999

ANÀLISI CRÍTICA DEL DISCURS SOBRE NACIONALISME I IDENTITAT ALS EDITORIALS DE LA PREMSA DIÀRIA PUBLICADA A CATALUNYA DES DE LA TRANSICIÓ FINS AL GOVERN DEL PP (1977-1996)

Cum Laude
Xavier Giró Martí
UNIVERSITY: Autònoma de Barcelona
DEPARTMENT: Journalism and Communicaction
Supervisors: Joan Manel Trasseras and M. Teresa Turell

ABSTRACT:
This dissertation analyses the role played by newspapers in the process of construction or deconstruction of national identities in Catalonia. The starting premise is that newspapers are political actors and, therefore, help determine not only the mental representation of reality, but reality itself. The data analysed derive from newspaper editorials where the newspaper's ideological footprints can be traced down. Two models are adopted: Van Dijk's ideological discourse framework (1996) and H.P. Grice's co-operative principle (1975), which is adapted to the mass media. The most important contribution of this thesis is the proposal of an ideological nationalistic map derived from the analysis of the explicit and implicit propositions (implicatures and presuppositions). Only a subset of 5 editorials (out of a total of 40 from the newspapers considered (El Periódico, La Vanguardia, El País, and L'Avui) have been studied more thoroughly from the point of view of their vocabulary, verbal modulation, identity subjects, and grammatical. This research was sponsored by Fundació Jaume Bofill and was later on awarded with the XII Premio a la Investigación sobre Comunicación de Masas (Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya)(2000).

YEAR: 1997
LA SEMÀNTICA VERBAL DEL CATALÀ: LA
REPRESENTACIÓ DELS ESDEVENIMENTS

Cum Laude
Núria Alturo
UNIVERSITY: Central de Barcelona
DEPARTMENT: Catalan Philology
Supervisors: M. Teresa Cabré and M. Teresa Turell

YEAR: 1993

VARIACIÓ I CANVI LINGÜÍSTIC AL CATALÀ DE TRANSICIÓ NORD-OCCIDENTAL VALENCIÀ

Cum Laude
Miquel Àngel Pradilla
UNIVERSITY: Rovira i Virgili
DEPARTMENT: Philology
Supervisor: M. Teresa Turell

YEAR: 1992

MOTIVACIÓN Y NECESIDAD EN EL APRENDIZAJE DE
LA LENGUA INGLESA EN BARCELONA

Cum Laude
Mercè Bernaus
UNIVERSITY: Central de Barcelona
DEPARTMENT: English and German Philology
Supervisor: M. Teresa Turell

YEAR: 1991

THE ACQUISITION OF THE ENGLISH TENSE-SYSTEM IN AN EFL LEARNING SITUATION: A STUDY OF INTERLANGUAGE AND TRANSFER IN BARCELONA

Cum Laude
Mª Luz Celaya
UNIVERSITY: Central de Barcelona
DEPARTMENT: English and German Philology
Supervisor: M. Teresa Turell

Thesis and academic papers, master thesis and research papers