hematic unity and textual variety: a social topic in three oral narratives

Abstract

Three short narratives picked up from the oral tradition present in the south of Chile are analized both from the perspective of the text linguistic and of language as social semiotics. Structurally the narratives are quite different from each other, but at a deeper level they show not only thematic unity but also a common topic dealing with ethnic and sociocultural circumstances proper of the contextual reality of the narratives.