THE COMMUNICATIVE ROLE OF CAUSATIVE CLAUSES IN THE TEXT
THE COMMUNICATIVE ROLE OF CAUSATIVE CLAUSES IN THE TEXT

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of functioning of complex sentences in the text. The author investigates complex sentences in the connection with their communicative role in the organization of the text considering that the sentence in isolation cannot show the communicative intention of the author. Nowadays, the idea that a sentence is the smallest communicative unit has become more and more widespread. Although a sentence has all the necessary properties to serve as a unit of verbal communication and express human thoughts, human speech is not limited to individual sentences. A person expresses his thoughts, transforms them to other people in the form of an utterance consisting, in most cases, of a chain of interconnected sentences that form a superphrase unit or a text. A superphrase unit is a unit of speech combined and distinguished rhythmically, melodically, phonetically, syntactically, phraseologically, etc., the integrity of expression and/or content, uniting various linguistic units and ensuring their combined semiological functioning; a composite (complex) unit of speech. In this work, the author analyzes only those superphrase units that contain complex sentences with the causal subordinate clauses. When analyzing complex sentences with the subordinate causal clauses the author proceeds from the assumption that the structure of a superphrase unit is isomorphic to the structure of a complex sentence, thus the position of the causal clauses in the text influences the communicative role of this clause in the text.

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