Grammar II, UNIT 2
Sobre este episodio
En este episodio, vamos a hablar sobre la unidad 2, titulada "The organization of time in the textual world": tense vs time, time-frame, tense-shift y time-frame shift, reasons for time-frame shift, written descriptions and narratives + tenses, and oral discourses + tenses. ALGUNAS DEFINICIONES CLAVE: Tense: the form a verb adopts to refer to time; they vary from language to language Time: universal concept, independent of language and common to all humankind Time frame: it is a period of time (present, past or future) that a speaker or writer circumscribes to an event depending on when this took place or will take place. Tense-shift: when within the same time frame we use different tenses. Time-frame shift: when we change from one timeframe to another Kuehn introduces two examples: Discourse hopping: where the writer/speaker chooses to shift from one axis to another without signalling their intentions to do so Discourse freezing: where the writer/speaker