Resumen

CLAUDEVILLE ABREU, María Magnolia. A textual study as a contribution to the exertion of citizenship. Letras [online]. 2012, vol.54, n.86, pp.57-75. ISSN 0459-1283.

With the aim of establishing meaningful links between linguistic-textual studies and communicative acts of common use, this research work attempts to characterize the textual conditions of written denouncement. The analysis was framed within the theoretical statements of Halliday (1976), van Dijk (1978, 1983) and Jáimez (1996), who, in terms of the organization of the information, account for a global coherence of the text: the superstructure. This trend has acknowledged the interdisciplinary nature of the text and has foregrounded it as a superior unit of analysis, considering it as object of study at a level higher than the word, the phrase and the sentence. The methodology included the bibliographical research, the direct collection of data, and the description and interpretation of the linguistic product. The use of an inductive method was considered for the analysis of different models (denouncements) and for the identification of the recurrence of their parts. This systematic procedure led to the characterization of a textual modality that is part of the citizens’ collective consciousness. Also, the different models served as evidence of the recurrence of some basic categories which, when organized according to previous textual knowledge, report the presence of a determined textual pattern: the superstructure of written denouncement.

Palabras clave : textual elements; written denouncement; superstructure.