Semantic structure of thematic utterances as a phatic unit for establishing initial speech contact (on examples from Russian and Bulgarian literary texts) Cover Image

Семантическая структура тематических высказы-ваний в качестве фати-ческой единицы для установления первона-чального речевого контак-та (на примерах из русских и болгарских художест¬венных текстов)
Semantic structure of thematic utterances as a phatic unit for establishing initial speech contact (on examples from Russian and Bulgarian literary texts)

Author(s): Nadezhda Stoykova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: phatic unit; phatic situation; thematic expression

Summary/Abstract: During the initial speech contact the speaker has the opportunity to freely choose various language means described in the speech etiquette. But the deviation from the linguistic norm is observed quite often. In a relaxed dialogue interaction, the initiator of communication can use various thematic statements as phatic units that successfully carry out the act of establishing initial speech contact. In fiction, such statements are characterised by a rather wide semantic diversification.

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