Functional aspect of small-format texts (based on aphorisms from Nelson Mandela,
Margaret Thatcher, Hillary Clinton) Cover Image

Функциональный аспект малоформатных текстов (на материале афоризмов Нельсона Манделы, Маргарет Тэтчер, Хиллари Клинтон)
Functional aspect of small-format texts (based on aphorisms from Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Hillary Clinton)

Author(s): Olena Babenko
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Pragmatics
Published by: Lingvokulturologické a prekladateľsko-tlmočnícke centrum excelentnosti pri Filozofickej fakulte Prešovskej university v Prešove (LPTCE)
Keywords: small-format texts;aphorisms;maxims;functional aspect;semiotic status;communicative status

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the small-format texts. Aphorisms play a unique role in transfer ofcollective and individual wisdom from a generation to a generation. They express the mostimportant ideas in a brief and laconic way.The research is based on functional analysis of aphorisms from Nelson Mandela,Margaret Thatcher, Hillary Clinton. Communicative, nominative, directive, cumulativefunctions are more typical of analysed linguistic data. Further perspectives for the research arealso emphasized.

  • Issue Year: 6/2015
  • Issue No: 23-24
  • Page Range: 155-161
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian