María Gómez Mesas1, Francisco J. Rodríguez Muñoz2
1 Department of Spanish Language and Literature, IES Los Ángeles, Almería, Spain
2Department of Education, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Almería, Spain, ORCID: 0000-0001-6071-509X. Email: frodriguez@ual.es
Volume 12, Number 2, April-June, 2020 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n2.02
Abstract
This paper examines the literary recreation of the colloquial modality in the novel by Juan Goytisolo La Chanca, claiming the syntax as a fundamental level of the stylistic analysis, which arises from a pragmatic-discursive perspective. Consequently, the study focuses on the colloquium syntax and applies the grid analysis developed by the Groupe Aixois de Recherche en Syntaxe. More specifically, attention is paid to the symmetry and enumeration figures, to the suspended statements, and to the cumulative syntax in the work. It is concluded that Goytisolo manages to recreate the colloquial modality in La Chanca, also from the syntactic perspective, capturing not only aspects that are characteristic of the phonetics, the morphology or the lexicon of the diatopic and diastratic variations represented, but also of the constructions which are typical of the colloquial conversation.
Keywords: colloquial syntax, grid analysis, Juan Goytisolo, La Chanca, literary recreation