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DURAN, Migdalia. Syntactic-pragmatic structure of the theme in Spanish speech in Venezuela. Paradígma [online]. 2014, vol.35, n.2, pp.107-127. ISSN 1011-2251.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the issue of statements in the speech of Spanish in Venezuela, to explain how it fits or is related to the topic with the syntactic and pragmatic functions. Theoretically, this study is based on the functional syntax and syntax of spoken language, and with respect to methodology, I attended the functional discourse approach (Halliday 1967, Chafe 1979). The corpus consisted of the Corpus Phonetics Laboratory of the University of Los Andes. This three informants were selected. The sample consisted of 261 statements with talking points encoded in the noun phrase. As a result we find that the lexical NP (65.1%) is the embodiment used to encode the subject of statements. The pronominal SN reached a percentage of 34.9%. The issue as thematic structure is expressed through syntactic functions such as subject (68.2%), direct object (17.3%), indirect object (8.1%) and predicative (6.4%). Pragmatically, we found that 69.4% of the subjects are presented as given information, while only 30.6% presented with new information. In conclusion, from the perspective of functional syntax, the notions of theme and rheme, given and new information belonging to different planes, theme and rheme obey a thematic structure, while given and again depend on the text, the linguistic and speech situation in the communicative act.

Palabras clave : theme; orality; syntactic-pragmatic structure; Spanish in Venezuela.

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