The 'ARGUMENT-IS-WAR' and the dialectical discoursal patterns: their acquisition and use by TELF students in written argumentative texts
Authors
Roberto Pichihueche Mellado
Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Departamento de Lingüística, Av. Capitán Ignacio Carrera Pinto 1025, Ñuñoa, Santiago
In a broad research context, the present study covers the grounds of, on the one hand, the interdisciplinary domain of discourse analysis and, on the other hand, the field of applied linguistics. This study is intended to research into intermediate TEFL students’ development of their ability to interpret and use some of the basic argumentative writing resources that they are expected to develop as part of their academic studies and EFL teacher training. The study set out to account for the students’ ability to employ two cognitive discoursal patterns which influence the production of argumentative written discourse, that is: a) the ‘ARGUMENT ISWAR’ pattern (AIW), based on the seminal proposals by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) about the operation of ‘conceptual metaphors’ in discourse; and b) the dialectical mode of discourse, proposed by Ruiz and Zenteno (2004-2005).
Pichihueche Mellado, R. (2012). The ’ARGUMENT-IS-WAR’ and the dialectical discoursal patterns: their acquisition and use by TELF students in written argumentative texts. Lenguas Modernas, (40), Pág. 79–102. Retrieved from https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/LM/article/view/30766
