Spanish C2 · Day 2
Day 2: Dudosa fiabilidad del narrador rioplatense — Discourse values of the Spanish imperfect (part 2)
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Discourse values of the Spanish imperfect (part 2)
- Reading: ¿Quién responde por el imperfecto?
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Grammar point: Discourse values of the Spanish imperfect (part 2)
In literary narrative, the imperfect organises the reader’s confidence in what has actually occurred. Its discursive values can suspend an outcome, spread one episode across a habit or present a memory as still unfinished. The preterite can place the same material as accomplished, bounded or closed.
Key vocabulary (8 of 33 words)
- la instancia enunciadora – narrating voice or agency (literary criticism)
- la focalización – perspective through which narrative information is filtered
- el estilo indirecto libre – free indirect discourse
- la poca fidedignidad del relato – narrative unreliability
- el autodesenmascaramiento – inadvertent exposure of one's own motives or flaws
- el mentís – denial or disavowal
- la estrategia de autenticación – device used to lend credibility to an account
- la apología – formal defence or justification (elevated)
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