The Analyzing the use of two Spanish perfect tenses applying the interpersonal metafunction

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) aims to describe a language holistically. A main feature of SFL is the global comprehension of a phenomenon obtained by analyzing its parts. This feature fulfills the goal of this paper, i.e., applying the interpersonal metafunction to analyze two past tenses of...

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Autores: Naysinger Nascimento, Greice, Miranda, Félix Valentín Bugueño
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)
Repositorio:Revista Entretextos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/49994
Acceso en línea:https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/entretextos/article/view/49994
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:interpersonal metafunction
spanish language
perfect tenses
metafunción interpersonal
español
pretéritos perfectos
metafunção interpessoal
espanhol
pretéritos perfeitos
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Sumario:Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) aims to describe a language holistically. A main feature of SFL is the global comprehension of a phenomenon obtained by analyzing its parts. This feature fulfills the goal of this paper, i.e., applying the interpersonal metafunction to analyze two past tenses of the Spanish language classified according to their particular perfect aspect. As a theoretical framework are used the concept of diasystem (Coseriu, 1992), the classification of perfect tenses adopted by Spanish linguistics (Aleza Izquierdo, 2010; RAE, 2008), and the concept of interpersonal metafunction (Fuzer; Cabral, 2014; Ghio; Fernandes, 2008), that enables to analyze the interaction between speakers and listeners, showing the attitudes and the point of view of the speakers.  A segmentation and analysis procedures are used to examine a corpus of press text sentences compiled to do the research. Applying the interpersonal metafunction clearly shows that this construct contributes to a better understanding of some language structures. However, it seems that SFL lacks some limitations in explaining the use of both past tenses of Spanish.