Recursos de objetividad discursiva en algunos lenguajes funcionales

The so-called discursive objectivity is understood as the distance and neutrality of the speakers toward processes expressed by verbal predicates. This phenomenon is directly related to a high frequency of structures with little grammatical, deictic and temporal information like nominalizations, agentless passive sentences and, on the other hand, to a low frequency about the speaker, of personal pronouns. Obviously, its role depends on the type of text and the use of specialized language. Detailed analysis of an electronic and manually annotated corpora allows us to state that this discursive feature is the most important in the academic and scientific texts and its role decreases in journalistic and narrative ones. The statistical data automatically extracted from the electronically annotated corpora confirms the trend. In spite of structural differences between the four languages, reflected in different frequency of objectivity markers, in each of the languages the number of such markers strongly correlated with each functional style. This in turn leads to a statement that the functional type of text is probably the most decisive factor for many discursive features of the language