ISFD.

N° 100–Avellaneda

English Department

Discursive Practices of Written Communication 2

Professor: Beatriz Castiñeira Year 2024

Text analysis guide

1. Overview
∙ Layout and Paratext

∙ Contextual features

∙ Topic:

∙ Main idea:

2. Parts of the narrative

PART Lines (Number: Text/words: From…
from… to…) To…
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6) Evaluation Elements Examples

3. Cohesion
∙ Verbs
Tense: Past Simple
Sequence of events: Woke up – grabbed – came – asked – said - walked – asked –
said – got – asked - said - send – asked – said – went – handed – deliver – turned –
walked – stopped – handed - read
∙ Markers
(time, place and other)

 TIME:
On Monday,
when he came downstairs…,
When he got to school…,
At lunch his friends…,
the box sat with him all day,
before today, nobody…,
until now,
On Tuesday

 PLACE:
Under his bed,
He came downstairs
Walked to his bus stoop
He got to school
In class
Send him to the principal
Jerry went back to the class
He walked down the aisle
At the desk of Oscar

 LOGICAL MARKER:
But (contrast)
If (condition)
And (additive)

∙ Lexical chain
Participant – element: discourse relation and grammar category

BEFORE: discourse level: Marker

Semantic Level: Time
 Grammar Level: Conjunct
WHEN: discourse level: Marker
Semantic Level: Time
Grammar Level: Conjunct
UNTIL: discourse level: Marker
Semantic Level: Time
Grammar Level: Conjunct

4. Semantic relations (examples) ∙

Semantic field

∙ Synonymy: Grabbed - Handed

∙ Antonymy

∙ Hyponymy

∙ Meronymy

5. Other features