Los textos divulgativos como una conversación encubiertaanálisis de los recursos comunicativos de un texto divulgativo
ISSN: 0210-3702, 1578-4126
Year of publication: 1996
Issue: 75
Pages: 85-96
Type: Article
More publications in: Journal for the Study of Education and Development, Infancia y Aprendizaje
Abstract
The study examines how new knowledge is constructed through words offered by someone with whom it is not possible to speak directly. Our aim is to study the communicative resources of high quality divulgative texts. For this purpose, a text is considered a communicative act that must respect the rules that govern the compromise between material that is already known and material that is new (Haviland and Clark, 1977). A high quality divulgative text was analysed; three specific resources used by the author to satisfy the above compromise were identified: evocation, reflection and covert evaluation. We consider the difficulty of texts in which these characteristics could not be clearly appreciated together with their educational challenge