Spanish C2 · Day 40
Day 40: Conflicto entre convenios laborales — Journalistic style: commentary and column (part 2)
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Journalistic style: commentary and column (part 2)
- Reading: Dos convenios para el mismo turno
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Grammar point: Journalistic style: commentary and column (part 2)
In an argumentative commentary, a question can organise a judgment rather than request information. At C2, the important distinction is between a rhetorical question, whose answer the writer presents as obvious, and hypophora, where the writer asks a question and then answers it. Compare: «¿Quién iba a negar que el convenio sectorial obliga?» and «¿Qué aportaría el convenio de empresa?
Key vocabulary (8 of 35 words)
- la concurrencia convencional – overlap of labour agreements covering the same job relationship
- la pluralidad convencional – coexistence of different labour agreements within one workplace
- el ámbito funcional – scope of coverage
- la vinculación convencional – status of being bound by a labour agreement
- la cláusula de remisión – contractual clause pointing to another body of rules
- la ultraactividad – lingering effect after a labour agreement ends
- la cláusula de descuelgue – clause allowing departure from agreed terms
- la prohibición de concurrencia – restriction barring rules from being adopted at another level
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