Encapsulación y tipos de coherencia referencial y relacional: el pronombre ello como mecanismo encapsulador en el discurso escrito de la economía

Abstract

Revista semestral de lingüística, filología y traducción 33 Junio 2016 Encapsulación y tipos de coherencia referencial y relacional: el pronombre ello como mecanismo encapsulador en el discurso escrito de la economía * Encapsulation and types of referential and relational coherence: pronoun ello as a an encapsulator mechanism in the written discourse of Economics

Always look back: Eye movements as a reflection of anaphoric encapsulation in Spanish while reading the neuter pronoun ello

“…This could be explained by two different but complementary arguments. Structurally speaking, the processing of such a neuter pronoun normally implies the potential to refer to complex text segments (Parodi and Burdiles, 2016, 2017 e that is, antecedents of a varying extension greater than a phrase or a clause e which do not refer to a single proper noun or proper name (i.e., Juan, María). On the other hand, and semantically speaking, the neuter pronoun involves the processing of abstract entities, as those usually represented by a complex nominalization or a whole paragraph or even paragraphs.…”

“…What is more, researchers have not reached consensus on which entities should be consider abstract or under what conditions. In fact, Parodi and Burdiles (2016, 2017 have acknowledged the crucial lack of orientations in order to identify these abstract antecedents, not only due to a lack of a proper semantic and syntactic characterization, but also in terms of delimitating antecedents that extend beyond the sentential or clausal limits. The findings reported in the present study (extension effect) therefore would not coincide with those concerning the processing of gender-and numberspecific personal pronouns.…”

“…However, recent findings reported by Parodi and Burdiles (2016, 2017 in a number of large corpus-based studies on disciplinary written genres have found that these pronouns (ello, esto, eso and aquello) tend to occur in a much higher proportion in causal contexts and when encapsulating large previous text segments. These segments may include a clause, a clause complex, or even what they have named Clausal Group, which may comprise one or two paragraphs.…”

“…The syntax of ello is restricted to certain specific uses (Fern andez, 1999;RAE, 2005), in particular as an 'end of preposition' or as a prepositional expression. In this syntactic structure, it is usual that when it encapsulates, it does so in a context of causality (Parodi and Burdiles, 2016). It does not tend to appear as a direct object (RAE and ASALE, 2010), as for this the atonic pronoun lo is used, but it can work as an indirect object.…”

Encapsuladores nominales <i>hecho</i>, <i>idea</i>, <i>tema</i> y <i>problema</i> en un corpus de escritura académica en español

“…Otros estudios han profundizado en el comportamiento de un encapsulador en específi co, como González Martínez (2014) con el sustantivo motivo en el Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (crea) y Rodríguez-Espiñeira (2015) con el sustantivo hecho como un nombre encapsulador de la clase factual en el esquema N-de-cláusula (por ejemplo, El hecho de que la gripe sea frecuente epidémica se debe a la gran capacidad de infección del virus). En esta misma tendencia, se han analizado las funciones textualizadoras y cohesivas de otros mecanismos en el discurso académico como la conjunción a pesar de (que) (Montolío Durán, 2013) y el pronombre neutro ello (Parodi & Burdiles, 2016).…”