Las destrezas discursivas de las construcciones condicionales en el Libro de los exenplos por A.B.C.: el dístico rimado
The Discursive Skills of Conditional Constructions in the Libro de los exenplos por A.B.C.: The Rhyming Couplet

Summary/Abstract: The drift of syntax towards new approaches and manners of analysing is both the reflection and the consequence of the evolution of linguistics generally and, more specifically, of text linguistics. After years focused on the system, its components and their relations, linguistics has opened up to its realisation and to the construction of discourse. Texts, on the other hand, are no longer seen as mere providers of data or as isolated objects. They have become the result of a communication act and refer to classes, templates, or schemas which conventionalise the manner in which content and the choice of resources are used and organized. The use of these premises to approach conditionality, that is, to any expression that denotes such value, seeks to look at its informative operativity and to commit its contribution to thematic progression (coherence) and to the connection of its components (cohesion). It is actually a demand imposed by the particularities of the Libro de los exenplos por A.B.C., whose didactic nature presides over and mediates everything, from its purpose to its discursive configuration, to the units that make it up, the selection of the linguistic techniques it actualises and the interlocutors it is addressed to. The study of the rhyming couplet confirms these aspects. It uses conditional structures other than those documented in the conclusions and in the body of the exemplo and, when this is not the case, it uses them with very different functions.

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