КОММУНИКАТИВНО-ГРАММАТИЧЕСКАЯ СПЕЦИФИКА РИТОРИЧЕСКОГО ТЕКСТА
COMMUNICATIVE AND GRAMMATICAL SPECIFICITY OF THE RHETORICAL TEXT

Author(s): Lyudmila Golyshkina
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Theory of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: rhetorical text; persuasion; text linguistics; communicative speech register; text formation; selection and combination; argument arrangement of the text;
Summary/Abstract: The article presents an analysis of mechanisms for arranging a specific text type – a rhetorical one with persuasion as the basic typological property. G.A. Zolotova’s concept of communicative grammar with the communicative speech register as a unit of text formation is considered as the methodological basis for the research. Monologic speech registers (reproductive, informative, generitive) are specific ways of mental and sensory fixation of fragments of the world picture, in which various levels of speaker’s abstraction of reality appear. From the point of view of the text linguistics the procedure of communicative and grammatical analysis includes two main stages: 1) discretizing a text into text formation units; 2) conceptualizing the continuum of the text. Thus, the first stage of the analysis requires reconstructing how the addressee chooses a communicative speech register from a paradigm variety of the superphrase text components. The second stage of the analysis involves the study of combinatorics of communicative registers, which allows us to observe both the syntagmatic construction of the linear structure of the text as well as its argument arrangement providing persuasion, and, accordingly, typological originality of the rhetorical text. The research has resulted in identifying principles of selection and combination of the text components and the models of argument arrangement demonstrating communicative and grammatical specificity of the rhetorical text.

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