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Les activitats no són accions (situacions i tipus de text en anglès i en català)
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[ENG] This paper seeks to show that Activities do not form a natural class with neither Actions nor States. We suggest that these categories are not objective situation classes, but different (subjective) ways of conceptualizing the dynamics and the discreteness of a given situation. Having been a situation conceptualized as an Action, an Activity or a State (non-discrete o discrete), the discourse chunk which represents it is organized according to a particular mode or textual type which reflects the speaker perspective: a narrative, an exposition of activities, an exposition of states, or a description. Provided that Activities determine one particular way of organizing the discourse structure, it does not make sense to include them into neither of the other two classes. A comparison of English texts with Catalan texts contributes, in this paper, to make more obvious the need for an independent treatment of Activities.
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ALTURO, Núria. Les activitats no són accions (situacions i tipus de text en anglès i en català). Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia. 2001. Vol. 30, num. 111-134. ISSN 0214-8188. [consulted: 11 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/144083