Some Notes on the Degrees of Explicitness of Pragmatic Meaning in One Type of Caused Motion Construction: An English-Czech Comparison
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| Rok publikování | 2011 |
| Druh | Článek v odborném periodiku |
| Časopis / Zdroj | Ostrava Journal of English Philology |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Obor | Jazykověda |
| Klíčová slova | English secondary agent constructions; Czech equivalents; situational frames; pragmatic meaning |
| Popis | The paper examines the differences in verbal meanings between English and Czech in secondary agent constructions. The paper shows that English displays a relatively low degree of pragmatic explicitness: the meaning of the construction is thus determined by a more or less firmly established situational frame associated with a given construction. By contrast, the Czech equivalents are more explicit. |