Syntactic and FSP Aspects of Fronting as a Style Marker
| Autor: | Libuše Dušková |
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| Jazyk: | Czech<br />German<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, Vol 2017, Iss 1, Pp 63-89 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0567-8269 2464-6830 24646830 70268495 |
| DOI: | 10.14712/24646830.2017.5 |
| Popis: | The paper examines contextual and emphatic fronting in academic prose, fiction narrative and fiction dialogue in order to ascertain whether the types of fronting can serve as a style marker. The differences in the distribution and their effect on style are assumed to be connected with the respective FSP structures: in emphatic fronting the fronted element is the rheme, whereas in contextual fronting it is the diatheme. Hence emphatic fronting displays a prominent deviation from the basic distribution of communicative dynamism, whereas contextual fronting achieves agreement with it. As compared with the unmarked postverbal ordering, emphatic fronting intensifies the emphatic/emotional character of the content being expressed, which is a feature of speech, while contextual fronting serves as a direct link with what precedes, hence contributes to textual cohesion, which is a characteristic of academic prose, with fiction narrative presumably occupying an intermediate position. The results of the study show more types of fronting with diversified structures and less clear-cut relations between the types of frontings and the examined text sorts. |
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