ZJAWISKO SEGMENTACJI SKŁADNIOWEJ WE WSPÓŁCZESNYCH TEKSTACH PRASOWYCH
THE PHENOMENON OF SYNTACTIC SEGMENTATION IN THE CONTEMPORARY PRESS TEXTS

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the phenomenon of syntactic segmentation in the contemporary Polish press texts (mainly in the weekly magazines Tygodnik Powszechny and Polityka). This phenomenon consists in the isolating one or more sentence parts (they may be also subordinate clauses) in the form of independent phrase. In the oral speech segmentation is expressed by pause, and in written texts are used the dots (as a graphic sign). The segmentation is associated with a specific positioning the segments, namely their end position. Therefore, there aren’t rare cases when segmentation is accompanied by a change of the words order, i.e. putting elements in the postposition towards the lead (sentence substrate). The pause between the lead and the subphrase is equivalent to the expression (in form of parentheses) of actualization, i.e. highlighting the importance of the content transmitted in this way. In perspective of functionality, segmentation is an ambiguous phenomenon. It serves in the first place to emphasize the content (an emphatic function), but also features other functions: fascination, expressive and ergonomic.

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