Argumentative Texts, Theater, and Compound Sentences
Posted on Mar 15, 2025 in Linguistics and Applied Languages
Argumentative Texts: Media
- The Publisher: This text is unsigned and exposes the media’s ideas about a topic.
- The Chronicle: It’s a newspaper, television, or radio article in which the writer reports on an incident and reflects on it.
- The Op-Ed: In the opinion article, a specialist or prestigious person expresses an opinion about a topical issue.
- The Letter to the Editor: It is an opinion piece that discusses a topical issue, sent to an editor of a magazine or newspaper. The text should be signed and be clear, concise, and accurate.
- Advertising: It is a message consisting of text and one or more non-verbal elements that try to convince and influence the recipient.
Theatrical Genres: Soundtracks
- Comedy: A type of drama in which everyday life, its problems, and limitations are portrayed, using humor as a resource. It usually has a happy ending.
- Tragedy: Originally, tragedies were attached to old myths and stories and had a background of struggle against fate. It has an unhappy ending.
- Drama: Also called tragicomedy. This theatrical subgenre mixes tragic and comic elements to better reflect reality. It can have a happy or unhappy ending.
Oral Argument Texts
- Oral Argument:
- Adequacy: The speaker and spoken words to the audience.
- The structure of logic and data consistency.
- Use of the distinctive features of the dialogue to establish a rapprochement between the transmitter and receiver.
- Tone of voice: With the shades, subjective elements are marked.
- Non-verbal language: It must be a language with gestures, provided it is not necessary.
- The Debate: An argument is a situation in which a moderator leads a dialogue between several people.
- The Gathering: An argument is a situation in which there is no moderator and there is greater freedom to change the subject.
- The Pitch: It is an argumentative essay in which a speaker talks about a specific topic to an audience.
Simple and Compound Sentences
- The Simple Sentence: Statements which are formed by only one verbal form.
- It is a grammatical unit with complete sense.
- It is delimited by pauses.
- It has independent syntax.
- The Compound Sentence: It has two or more verbs.
- It consists of several verbs and various predicates.
- It consists of several prepositions.
- It has a subject and predicate structure.
- Prepositions are dependent on syntax.
- It has links that serve as connectors.
Coordinated, Juxtaposed, and Subordinated Sentences
- Coordinated: Coordinated sentences are complex sentences that are joined together by coordinating conjunctions. There is no dependency relationship between them; both convey a complete message.
- Juxtaposed: Juxtaposed sentences are compound sentences whose propositions are linked by a punctuation mark.
- Subordinated: Subordinated sentences are compound sentences in which there is a dependency relationship between the propositions. They are joined by subordinating conjunctions.
How to Analyze a Compound Sentence
- Find and highlight the personal verb form in the sentence.
- Point to the link that connects the preposition and indicate its kind.
- Separate the prepositions and indicate what type of sentence is formed.
- Finally, analyze the various proposals as simple sentences.