Valorative prosody and the symbolic construction of time in recent national historical discourses  

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Oteíza, Teresa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 15 no. 1 (Feb. 2013), page 43-64.
Topik: Appraisal theory; discourse of history; symbolic construction of time; valorative prosody
Fulltext: p. 43-64.pdf (576.69KB)

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In this article we explore the semantic category of graduation, specifically force (appraisal theory), which builds the symbolic dimension of time in historical discourses. Our aim is to provide a more refined and extensive theoretical framework to analyse the symbolic construction of time in historical discourses – one that allows us to take into consideration how social, political and economic processes and events are represented and valued in historical discourses. We propose that this symbolic ‘scenification’ of time is constructed in the discourse by a combination and accumulation of congruent and metaphorical lexico-grammatical resources. In this manner, meanings of quantification of time as duration and sequencing tend to be expressed in a more congruent way, whereas meanings of intensification of time as accelerating, deepening and expectation tend to be expressed in a more metaphorical manner by means of processes and nominalizations. The chronological dimension of time imbricates the symbolic dimension in a way that allows historians and sociologists to legitimate particular historical memories of the recent Chilean past.

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