Abstract

MAHECHA MAHECHA, Viviana; ALVAREZ BERMUDEZ, Pedro Augusto  and  MATEUS FERRO, Geral Eduardo. Characterization of expository-explanatory texts used in the linguistic foundation of undergraduate students. Leng. [online]. 2022, vol.50, n.1, pp.175-204.  Epub Jan 18, 2022. ISSN 0120-3479.  https://doi.org/10.25100/lenguaje.v50i1.11441.

The current study reports the results of a research that analyzed texts used in the linguistic foundation of undergraduate students. Texts from the structuralist, generative and enunciative (discursive) paradigms were analyzed. An analysis matrix that records information in three dimensions was designed. These dimensions included the semantic, rhetorical-explanatory, and cognitive. It was established that texts preferably contain explanatory sequences and, within them, more attention is devoted to solving the problem of study. The most frequent discursive strategy is the assertion, followed by the exemplification and the author's quotation. Regarding the cognitive reference, in structuralist and generativist texts there is a balance between the symbolist and the experientialist reference; while in those of the enunciative (discursive) paradigm, the symbolic reference is preferred. The proposal provides starting points to characterize this type of texts and examine the impact of its properties on the processes of reading comprehension.

Keywords : expository-explanatory text; discursive strategies; cognition; reading comprehension.

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