1. La figura de María Beatriz Fontanella desde un análisis historiográfico y discursivo.
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Castro Fox, Guillermina
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SOCIAL action , *TWENTIETH century , *LINGUISTICS , *RHETORIC , *PROFESSIONAL employees , *DISCURSIVE practices - Abstract
To contribute to the history of linguistics in Argentina, we are interested in studying the figure of María Beatriz Fontanella (1939-1995), who, throughout the last third of the 20th century, anchored her professional activity at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, but whose prolific work had national and international repercussions. With the aim of exploring how Fontanella positioned herself within the disciplinary field in our country, we focus on her discursive practice as a contextualized social action (Barton y Hamilton 1998). To do this, we analyzed a writing by the author from 1968 from three perspectives: the description of the space of production and circulation of the text; biographical data that are significant for the construction of her role as a member of the disciplinary field (Koerner 2007), and the rhetorical-discursive configuration of the text (Gross 1996), focused on salient aspects of the experiential and interpersonal metafunctions (Halliday & Matthiessen 1994). The analysis reveals the existence of two rhetorics that converge towards a dual purpose: on the one hand, Fontanella points out a theoretical-methodological gap in the discipline; on the other hand, she positions herself advantageously within the field, legitimizing her occupancy of that vacant space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023