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2. Problems concerning the composition of spans of utterance wider than the sentence
3. Peculiar Use of Colloquial Constructions
4. Transferred use of Structural meaning
Problem:What is the role of Syntactical expressive means and stylistic devices?
Key words:
Overshadowed, domain, purport, satellite, proximity, parallel construction, consecutive,
climax, juxtaposition, anaphora
It is well known that study of the sentence and its types and especially the study of
the relations between different parts of the sentence has had a long history. Rhetoric was
mainly engaged in the observation of the juxtaposition of the members of the sentence and
in finding ways and means of building larger and more elaborate spans of utterance, as for
example, the period or periodical sentence. Modern grammars
have greatly extended the
scope of structural analysis and have taken under observation the peculiarities of the
relations between
the members of the sentence, which somehow has overshadowed
problems connected with structural and semantic patterns of larger syntactical units. It
would not be an exaggeration to state that the study of units
of speech larger than the
sentence is still being neglected by many linguists. Some of them even consider such units
to be extra-linguistic, thus excluding them entirely from domain of Linguistics.
The Syntactical Whole. The term
syntactical whole is used to denote a larger unit
than a sentence. It generally comprises a number of sentences interdependent structurally
(usually
by means of pronouns, connectives, tence-forms) and semantically (one
definite
thought is dealt with). Such a span of utterance is also characterized by the fact that it can
be extracted. This cannot be said of the sentence, which, while representing a complete
syntactical
unit may, however, lack the quality of independence. A sentence from the
stylistic point of view does not
necessarily express one idea, as it is defined in most
manuals of grammar. It may express only part of one idea. Thus the sentence: “Guy
glanced at his wife’s untouched plate” if taken out of the context will be perceived as a
part of a larger span of utterance where the situation will be made clear and the purpose of
verbal expression more complete.
Here is the complete syntactical whole:
Guy glanced at his wife’s untouched plate.
“If you’ve finished we might stroll down. I think you ought to be
starting.”
She did not answer. She rose from the table. She went into her room to
se that nothing had been forgotten and than side by side with him
walked down the steps. (Somerset Maugham)
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