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Expository Text: The Legalization of Abortion in Argentina

An expository text is a type of text that aims to inform the reader, to enrich his knowledge on a given subject. It usually provides the relevant information in a clear and orderly manner, through an objective sharing of facts, ideas, or concepts.

This is an expository text because it informs the reader about the legalization of abortion in Argentina and about various problems that there were before this legalization such as the death of many women and the various health problems related to abortion. It gives relevant information in clear and orderly manner and also there is a sharing of the facts and what happened in previous years.

Microfunctions: is the performance of an utterance, the actual Locutionary act ->utterance, and its apparent meaning, comprising any and all of its verbal, social and rhetorical meanings, all of which correspond to the verbal, syntactic and semantic aspects of any meaningful utterance. In this text there’s a literal meaning because the author of

Questo articolo vuole informarci sulla legalizzazione dell'aborto in Argentina e su un cambiamento per le donne. La forza illocutoria di un enunciato è l'intenzione del parlante nel produrre quell'enunciato. Un atto illocutorio è un'istanza di un tipo di atto linguistico culturalmente definito, caratterizzato da una particolare forza illocutoria; ad esempio, promettere, consigliare, avvertire. In questo testo c'è una forza comunicativa, c'è la necessità di comunicare al mondo che le donne in Argentina hanno finalmente ottenuto il diritto di abortire. Gli atti linguistici sono: rappresentativi perché gli atti linguistici che impegnano il parlante alla verità della proposizione espressa e in questo testo abbiamo affermazioni e dichiarazioni. Un effetto perlocutorio è l'effetto di un enunciato su un interlocutore. Esempi di atti perlocutori includono persuadere, convincere, spaventare, illuminare, ispirare o in altro modo influenzare l'interlocutore. In questo caso abbiamo l'effetto,theaddressee/recipient (who is reading). With this article the author wants tocreate a reaction that affect the reader/addressee. MACROFUNCTIONS: REFERENTIAL FUNCTION: (informative function -> centered on the context ), isoriented toward the context and describes a situation, object or mental state.the referential function is associated with an element whose true value is underquestioning especially when the truth value is identical in both the real andassumptive universe. It's content-centered and we can find it in textbooks,scientific articles, etc. in this case in an newspaper article. All the sentenceshave referential functions because is a newspaper article, so have to informwho is reading. The vocabulary is denoted. CONATIVE FUNCTION: function engages the addressee directly and is bestillustrated by vocatives and imperatives. It's reader-centered and it'scharacterized for the use of formality in addressing people. We can find it inadvertising, propaganda,

Polemical and persuasive writing. In this case, it is a newspaper article but it presents an important argument and has a conative function that aims at influencing the internal states and emotions of the addressee. For example, "It is a very serious public health issue." And "About 38,000 women a year require hospital treatment because of dangerous abortion procedures performed in secret, according to the Argentine government. Thousands are estimated to have died after unsafe abortion since 1983." Because it affects people who are particularly sensitive.

CONTEXT OF SITUATION

FIELD: This is a newspaper article of the BBC about the abortion legalization in Argentina after the vote on 11/12/2020. There's a non-specialized vocabulary (common in other fields). It speaks about a medical practice that has been approved in Argentina, but the vocabulary is easy to understand because it is a newspaper article addressed to everybody, so the vocabulary is common and also the register.

is general and can be read by all.

TENOR: The level of formality is formal, the relation is unequal, the closeness is neutral. There's no interactions between the author and the readers.

Adjectives -> danger/unsafe abortion

Verbs -> would (modal verb)

MODE: The channel is written to be read, it is a uni-directional channel.

(preparation) -> It is a prepared text, so the author had time for reflection.

COHERENCE: Coherence is the organization of meanings in relation to one another. The elements of the text correspond to the natural, real-world order of events or sequences. This text is an argumentative discussion, we have the organization of meanings in relation to one another and the elements correspond to the real-world events.

COHESION: Cohesion is when one element in the text is dependent on another for its interpretation. A cohesive link is present between the presupposing and the presupposed items. There are 4 types of grammatical links or cohesive devices: