Dominican Literature & Language Analysis
Dominican Literature and Linguistic Analysis
Consecutive Sentences Analysis:
The following analyzes the composition of prayers and procedures used in the following cases:
- “Maria Fernanda is so distracted that she forgets to eat.” (Consecutive)
- “[He] has studied much, [he] cannot fail.” (Juxtaposed)
- “I assumed that’s why [you should] come to dinner.” (Consecutive)
- “[It] is seven [o’clock], so hurry up.” (Consecutive)
- “The program is better than we expected.” (Consecutive)
Literary Competition
Question: What factors led to the development of production trials in the Dominican Republic in the period 1980-2000?
Answer: The development of the written press and relative democratization.
Question: Which educational issue has raised the most interest among Dominicans contemporary essayists?
Answer: National identity, the three-way relationship between society, history, and culture.
Question: Who are the leading representatives of the Dominican historical essay of the period?
Answer: Manuel Arturo Peña Batlle, Juan Isidro Jimenez, Juan Bosch, Joaquín Balaguer.
Question: What is a common feature of the present trials in the Hispanic period 1950-2000?
Answer: The search for identity and original expression.
Question: What Hispanic essayists of the period do you know?
Answer: Alejo Carpentier, José Luis González, Mariano Picón Salas, Carlos Rangel.
Question: Who are the novelists who are also Hispanic essayists?
Answer: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Arturo Uslar Pietri.
Communicative Competence
Analyze the following conversation between a doctor and his patient. It is a real transcribed text, showing the slow progress of information due to the use of “crutches” and lack of planning. The participants are the physician and the patient. There is spontaneity.
Language Proficiency
Analyze and answer the following questions. If your answer is yes, propose examples to justify it.
- Can a direct object, indirect object, and circumstantial object coexist? Yes. Example: Mary made the task.
- Is it a theme and rheme? Is a sentence with a mismatched subject and agent possible? Yes, in passive constructions.
- Is a sentence with ellipsis of the nucleus of the noun phrase and its modifiers possible? Yes. *Her friend Joan, the insult.*
- Theming describes another procedure: Alteration in the sentence order highlights certain information by putting it at the beginning.
- Passive constructions position the agent in the thematic position.
- Rematization: Describes two procedures.
- Structure is prominent when the queen appears first and is separated from the rest of the sentence by a pause.
- Split structures are those in which a sentence can be transformed.
Communicative Competence
Identify characteristic features of legal-administrative language in the following passages and determine if some of them are errors from the viewpoint of the standard. Propose an alternative wording in each case to favor clarity. In each of the texts, there is the presence of complex constructions, impersonal verb forms, and exclusive legal terminology.
Language Proficiency
Analyze the adverbial subordinate clauses that appear in the following compound sentences: index class, syntactic function, and indicators of subordination.
- A cover letters, anger, my own son. End.
- “To put your will, I have to believe you.” (Conditional)
- “[I will] do the possible visit.” (Final)
- “[If they are] invited to eat, they get nothing.” (Concessive)
- “Until I find [a] home, [I will] continue leaning.” (Temporal, *not causal*)
- “[It is necessary for] a child to have done this very well.” (Final)
- “You deserved the punishment.” (Causal)
- “Given its record, [I] could not deny anything.” (Causal)
- “If you like the car, buy it.” (Conditional)
- “So nobody bothers you, stay here.” (Final)