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Organizacja tekstu naukowego oglądana z perspektywy modeli zdaniowych (na materiale z obszaru humanistyki)
Organisation of academic texts viewed from the perspective of sentence models (in the realm of the humanities)

Author(s): Tatiana Kananowicz
Subject(s): Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Higher Education , Stylistics
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: academic text; structural and semantic sentence model; semantic derivation; syntactic derivation; synonymy of syntactic constructions;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the organisation of a scientific text in terms of the structuralsemantic types of sentences (sentence models) used in it, based on the system of sentence models developed for this type of text. This system consists of four models: syntactic patterns with prototypical meaning assigned to them, each of which includes base sentences and transformed sentences. The analysis is preceded by a description of the transformations leading to changes in the model qualification of the sentence, underlying which are primarily the processes of semantic and syntactic derivations. After counting the base and transformed sentences – representatives of separate models occurring in the texts – the organisation of the scientific text appears as a hierarchical structure, organised around the sentences of the relational model. The next most frequent models in terms of frequency are the activity model, the existence model, and the characterisation model. The analysis carried out contributes to a better understanding of the syntactic layer of the text as a determinant of scientific style, thus filling the gap in knowledge of this element of stylistic characteristics of scientific texts in the humanities.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: XXXII
  • Page Range: 281-298
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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