Theoretical Comment.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 586.
Semantic and Functional Sentence Perspective
SEMINAR 7
The notions of surface and deep (conceptual) structures of the sentence; the classification of “semantic cases”, or “semantic roles” (“case grammar” theory of Ch. Fillmore).
The notion of actual division of the sentence (informative perspective of the sentence). The components of actual division: the theme, the rheme, and the transition. Lingual means of expressing actual division of the sentence: word order patterns, constructions with introducers, syntactic patterns of contrastive complexes, constructions with articles and other determiners, constructions with intensifying particles, intonation contours. The connection of the actual division of the sentence with the logical analysis of the proposition (logical subject and logical predicate); their correlation with the subject and the predicate in the syntactic structure of a sentence. Direct (unspeclalized, unmarked) and inverted (reverse, specialized, marked) actual division. Actual division of the sentence and context. Actual division of sentences of different communicative types.
The pragmatic aspect of the communicative types of the sentence; classification of speech acts by J. Austin and J. R. Searle.
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