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ATLANTIS Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Vol. 28, núm. 1 Junio 2006 ATLANTIS 28.1 (June 2006) 28.1(Junio 2006) General Editor Directora: Angela Downing Managing Editor Directora adjunta: Marta Carretero Assistant Ayudante de redacción: Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla Style supervisor Corrector de estilo: Jorge Arús Hita Editorial Board Board of Advisors Andrew Blake University of Winchester Martin Bygate Lancaster University Teresa Fanego Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Fernando Galván Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Heinz Ickstadt Freie Universität Berlin J. Hillis Miller University of California at Irvine Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Universidad de La Rioja Susheila M. Nasta Open University Board of Referees Joan C. Beal (University of Sheffield) Jesús Benito Sánchez (Universidad de Valladolid) Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (Università di Pisa) Nilufer E. Bharucha (University of Mumby) Clare Birchall (Middlesex University) Anita Biressi (Roehampton University) Maggie Ann Bowers (University of Portsmouth) Rachel Bowlby (University College London) Kris Van den Branden (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Mario Brdar (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University) Laurel J. Brinton (University of British Columbia) Manuel Broncano (Universidad de León) Christopher S. Butler (University of Wales) Graham D. Caie (University of Glasgow) Carmen-Rosa Caldas Coulthard (University of Birmingham) Gordon Campbell (University of Leicester) Shirley Chew (University of Leeds) Robert Clark (University of East Anglia) Thomas Claviez (Freie Universität Berlin) Tom Cohen (University of Albany) Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre (Universidad de Murcia) Francisco J. Cortés Rodríguez (Universidad de La Laguna) Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) Rocío G. Davis (University of Navarra) Denise deCaires Narain (University of Sussex) Daniela Daniele (Università di Udine) Balz Engler (University of Basel) Susan M. Fitzmaurice (Northern Arizona University) Florencia Franceschina (Lancaster University) Javier Franco Aixelá (Universidad de Alicante) Cristina Garrigós (Universidad de León) Lincoln Geraghty (University of Portsmouth) Vincent Gillespie (University of Oxford) Cristina Giorcelli (Università di Roma Tre) Francisco Gonzálvez García (Universidad de Almería) Agnieszka Graff (Warsaw University) Sylviane Granger (Université de Louvain) Leighton Grist (University of Winchester) Adolphe Haberer (Université Lumière-Lyon 2) Pilar Hidalgo (Universidad de Málaga) Juan Carlos Hidalgo (Universidad de Sevilla) Ton Hoenselaars (Utrecht University) Jacqueline Hurtley (Universitat de Barcelona) David Johnson (The Open University) Stephan Kohl (Julius-Maximilians- Universität Würzburg) Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Loránd University) Manfred Krug (Universität Mannheim) Merja Kytö (Uppsala University) Alberto Lázaro (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) Ursula Lenker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) María José López Couso (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) Dámaso López García (Universidad Complutense) Ricardo Mairal Usón (UNED) Ana María Manzanas Calvo (Universidad de Salamanca) Javier Martín Arista (Universidad de La Rioja) John McLeod (University of Leeds) Lavinia Merlini (Università di Pisa) Rafael Monroy (Universidad de Murcia) Carmen Muñoz (Universitat de Barcelona) Heather Nunn (Roehampton University) James Ogude (University of the Witwatersrand) Mohamed- Salah Omri (University of Exeter) Klaus-Uwe Panther (Universität Hamburg) Pedro Javier Pardo (Universidad de Salamanca) Ruth Parkin-Gounelas (Aristotle University) Javier Pérez Guerra (Universidad de Vigo) James Procter (University of Stirling) Victor J. Ramraj (University of Calgary) David Richards (The Open University) Caroline Rooney (University of Kent) Dianne F. Sadoff (Miami University, Ohio) Jürgen Schlaeger (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) Elena Seoane (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) Alasdair Spark (University of Winchester) M. S. Suárez Lafuente (Universidad de Oviedo) Juan Antonio Suárez (Universidad de Murcia) Henry Sussman (University of Buffalo) Justine Tally (Universidad de La Laguna) Paloma Tejada Caller (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Geoff Thompson (University of Liverpool) I. M. Tieken-Boon van Ostade (University of Leiden) Harish Trivedi (University of Delhi) Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University) Pilar Zozaya (University of Barcelona) ATLANTIS Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos 28.1 (June 2006) 28.1 (Junio 2006) Table of Contents • Índice Articles • Artículos On Pragmatic Functions and their Correlation with Syntactic Functions: A Functionalist Perspective A. Jesús Moya............................................................................................................... 9 1999, A Closet Odyssey: Sexual Discourses in Eyes Wide Shut Celestino Deleyto ..................................................................................................... 29 “A Stranger in a Strange Land”: An Existentialist Reading of Fredrick Clegg in The Collector by John Fowles Andrés Romero Jódar................................................................................................ 45 Julie Taymor’s Titus (1999): Framing Violence and Activating Responsibility Clara Escoda Agustí ................................................................................................. 57 A New Parameter for the Description of Subject Assignment: The Term Hierarchy Carolina Rodríguez Juárez ..................................................................................... 71 Female Iconography and Subjectivity in Eavan Boland’s In Her Own Image Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez ......................................................................................... 89 Nilda de Nicholasa Mohr. El Bildungsroman y la aparición de un espacio puertorriqueño en la literatura de los EEUU Pilar Bellver Sáez ..................................................................................................... 101 Gathering the Limbs of the Text in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl Carolina Sánchez-Palencia Carazo and Manuel Almagro Jiménez.............. 115 Reviews • Reseñas Juan E. Tazón Salces and Isabel Carrera Suárez, eds., 2005: Post-Imperial Encounters: Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Relations reviewed by Christopher Rollason ......................................................................... 133 Helen Cooper 2004: The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare reviewed by Jordi Sánchez-Martí ............................................................................ 139 Fernando Galván y José Santiago Fernández, ed. and intr. 2005: Joseph Conrad. El corazón de las tinieblas reviewed by Jesús Varela Zapata ............................................................................. 145 Carmelo Medina Casado y José Ruiz Mas, eds. 2004: El bisturí inglés. Literatura de viajes e hispanismo en lengua inglesa reviewed by José Carlos Redondo Olmedilla........................................................ 151 María Pilar Safont Jordà 2005: Third Language Learners. Pragmatic Production and Awareness reviewed by Patricia Salazar Campillo.................................................................. 155 Enric Llurda (ed.) 2005: Non-Native Language Teachers. Perceptions, Challenges and Contributions to the Profession reviewed by María del Pilar García Mayo ............................................................ 161 Andrew Blake 2002: La irresistible ascensión de Harry Potter. (trad. E. Hidalgo Tenorio, 2005) reviewed by Mª del Carmen Espínola Rosillo ....................................................... 167 Christian Isobel Johnstone 1815: Clan-Albin: A National Tale, edited by Andrew Monnickendam (2003) reviewed by Alexis Easley .......................................................................................... 173 ARTICLES ART¸CULOS ATLANTIS 28.1 (June 2006): 9–28 ISSN 0210-6124 On Pragmatic Functions and their Correlation with Syntactic Functions: A Functionalist Perspective A. Jesús Moya Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha [email protected] The aim of this paper is to analyse two different text types within a discourse functional framework, in order to determine whether there is a difference in their formal realizations of new and known topics. This will be done by investigating how introductory and given topics are realized in clause structure in a sample of sixty news items and tourist brochures. In line with Biber, I have assumed that linguistic features vary with communicative purpose and topic. The results of the analysis carried out seem to conflict with Dik’s claim that the new topics tend to be located towards the final slot of the clause. The study also shows that these two text types differ in terms of how the known topics are realized syntactically. Key words: Functional Grammar, text type, new topic, known topic, subject, initial position 1. Aims and scope of the article Within the frameworks of the Prague School of Linguistics, Functional Grammar, American Functionalism and Cognitivism, many linguists have made reference to the tendency of the English language to locate clausal topics in initial position coinciding with the subject of the clause.1 In the forties, Mathesius (1939) pointed out the close relationship between given topic, initial position and subject. Later on, within the framework of Functional Grammar, Dik (1989, 1997) stated that topic