COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN WRITTEN TEXTS: VERBA DICENDI STUDY

Abstract

By definition, a man is a social being who interacts with peers either by necessity as a hobby, which determines its relations with the group and shapes it. The way this communication is expressed is vitally important to the educational community regarding the acquisition and the transmission of knowledge, which is determined by how they are expressed in the written texts, and this is even more relevant to the literary field. My aim in this report is to study the main approaches to the way of expressing communication from the use of different type of verbs, including the linguistic forms, discursive procedures of the expression, and communicative activity types. In order to do that, I have studied constructions with and without verba dicendi collected in Corpuses of Spanish and English languages - such as CREA online database (Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual de la Real Academia Española) and BNC (British National Corpus from Oxford University Computing Services) - and constructions posted on various publications, novels, etc, written in both languages, to establish relevant comparison between the uses of each other.
I am particularly concerned with communicative construction, which presupposes interaction with others, and what I am trying to determine is how often do these constructions happen, is it common or isolated cases?