Aspectos lingüísticos propios del discurso pre-periodístico en las relaciones sobre el Terremoto de Lisboa de 1755

Abstract

The reports that constitute the corpus of study for this work describe the devastating effects of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. The fact that natural disasters are a thematic invariant of informative discourse will allow us better to trace the evolution of the syntax used in this type of discourse. It should be noted, however, that not all reports have the same syntactic formation: some belong fully to what we could call the discourse of modernity, more closely connected, therefore, with the language of journalistic discourse today. Others, notwithstanding the date, have a more archaic and extremely complex syntax, which cannot be taken as the origin of modern expository discourse. This analysis will provide a clear evidential basis that will serve as a starting point to then analyse the evolution of journalistic language in relation to the textual changes that would gradually consolidate new information genres.