Spatial and Temporal Adverbials in the Further Development of the Communication
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The chapter in the monograph on functional syntax "New Chapters on Functional Syntax" investigates spatial and temporal adverbials with regard to functional sentence perspective while applying criteria traditionally used in the analysis of adverbials, grammatical function, semantic role, realization form, and clause position. The results of a detailed analysis of five conversational texts taken from a corpus of spoken English (LLC) prove that the dynamic semantic functions performed by spatial and temporal adverbials in the further development of the communication depend on the interplay of four FSP factors, the contextual factor, the semantic factor, the factor of linear modification, and intonation. In addition, the analysis attempts to prove that a study of spatial and temporal adverbials would not be fully comprehensive without the application of FSP theory. The chapter also reflects the author's research within the grant project 405/08/0866 Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse, which is supported by the Czech Science Foundation. |
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