Variation in thematic-rhematic articulation of a sentence (on the example of recordings of the short story a malefactor by Anton Chekhov)

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The aim of this article is to study the variation of topical structure depending on the intentions of the speaker. The article proposes a method of comparative study of voiced texts via their topical structure, which allows observing paradigmatic potential of a sentence within a preset context. In order to do so, the thematic-rhematic articulation of the text is compared to the articulations of its audio recordings. The deviations observed serve as a representation of the communicative intentions of the speaker. In the short story under consideration, more than a half of the utterances exhibit at least some degree of variation. The examples show that the thematic-rhematic articulation of an utterance influences its meaning, the way it interacts with the context and in some cases even its syntactic structure. Thus, thematic-rhematic articulation is a key concept for describing realization of a sentence in speech.

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Thematic-rhematic articulation, communicative syntax, utterance, communicative intention, actualization, intonation

Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/147220214

IDR: 147220214   |   DOI: 10.25205/1818-7919-2020-19-2-71-78

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