Нулевые знаки как средство суггестии
Zero signs as a means of suggestion

Author(s): Józefina Piątkowska-Brzezińska
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: syntactics; combination of signs; non-linguistic signs; national body language; semiotics of culture; cultural studies; nonverbal semiotics; contemporary phraseology
Summary/Abstract: In this paper non-prototypical, non-salient meanings of zero-signs are studied. The discussion focuses on cases where a syntactic zero could be recovered not due to its opposition to some explicit form, but due to other, rarely, if ever considered circumstances. The subject matter of the paper is Marina Tsvetaeva’s lyrics. In order to conduct pragmatic analysis of the poet’s “maximal exploitation of grammatical and syntactic ellipses” (Karlinsky 1966: 132), modern studies of zero verbs due to B. Wiemer and M. Haspelmath are taken into consideration. The analysis will reveal that the arrangement of zero-signs can acquire suggestive and iconic function, mirroring the movement of the poem from utmost implicitness to more overtness.

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