El enfoque metaoperacional y los fenómenos informativos

Abstract

This study builds upon meta-operational grammar, firstly postulated by Adamczewski (1983) and later developed and applied to the Spanish language analysis by Matte Bon above all. This research has the objective of investigating those phenomena used to highlight certain elements of the information structure (topicalization and focalization) under the perspective of the double clavier model. According to this model, the enunciator, depending upon his own needs and intentions, decides to introduce the discursive elements as new, or as resulting from a previous moment or speech. The discourse can be shaped by activating two distinct phases: in Phase I (rematic), the enunciator signals that the presented element has been the object of a paradigmatic choice among all the optional elements; in Phase II (thematic) no choice is made, as the aforementioned element is already present in the context. The double clavier model also appears to be an adequate response to the education needs sustaining a changing attitude in interactions. This attitude adapts itself by choosing among all the possible grammatical options and by taking into consideration also several pragmatic factors, which are linked to the specific situation and communicative purpose.