About the Order of Parts of Speech from the Relevance Theory Point of View (exemplified with a Literary Work by Husein Bašić) Cover Image

O redu dijelova iskaza iz ugla teorije relevantnosti (na primjerima iz djela Huseina Bašića)
About the Order of Parts of Speech from the Relevance Theory Point of View (exemplified with a Literary Work by Husein Bašić)

Author(s): Ismail Palić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Syntax, South Slavic Languages, Stylistics
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: utterance; order of parts of speech; theme; rhema; inversion; relevance theory; optimal relevance;

Summary/Abstract: The goal of this paper is to show the ways in which the inversion of the parts of speech (i.e. placing the 'rhema' in front of the 'theme') could be given a pragmatic interpretation rather than an exhaustive pragmatic analysis of all examples from the source. The starting assumption is that the inversion (in the sense how I define it) in the novel Tuđe gnijezdo by Husein Bašić is a very frequent intentional pragmatic act which could be quite appropriately explained (even) in the framework of the Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory. These explanations and conclusions concerning them are applicable not only in case of this selected novel by Bašić, but I believe that their applicability is much wider

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 59-72
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bosnian