Los géneros del Corpus PUCV-UCSC-2013 del discurso académico de la economía

el caso del Informe de Política Monetaria

Abstract

In recent decades there has been a growing interest in identifying the genres that are read and written across disciplines. In this scenario, this article provides empirical data to advance in this research line and thus contributes evidence to building a mapping of genres used in different contexts. More precisely, in this article, two complementary studies that characterize the written discourse of economics are presented. In the first, the genres of PUCV-UCSC-2013 Corpus are identified. In the second, the functional and rhetorical organization and the multisemiotic artifacts of the Monetary Policy Report (MPR) have been described. The empirical findings indicate that in the economics corpus 11 genres were identified, but only 3 are relevant in terms of their frequency of occurrence. These 3 are oriented towards pedagogical processes. In terms of the MPR genre, the evidence provided indicates its highly multimodal constitution, whose main artifact is the Graph. This artifact occurs primarily to construct meanings in the rhetorical move used to provide evidence and to project current and future economic situations. As part of the projections, the present findings will help to construct a corpus on the web for students in the field of economics.