L'enchaînement thématique et les formes de la phrase dans la description littéraire

• Authors: Hana Loucká

Title variants

EN

Thematic connexity and phrastic forms in a literary description

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

In a description, the different parts of a "tout" object are introduced in a text via identification that denotes them as presupposed already known elements standing in a thematic position. The theme is derived from an associative anaphor and transposed by means of a definite nominal unit. The qualities and characteristics attributed to the parts of a "tout" object stand in a rhematic position constituted by the subject complement of the thematic subject. In opening constructions, the individual parts of an "ensemble" object introduced in a text as new elements (therefore standing in a rhematic position) by means of identification are transposed by an indefinite nominal unit. The individual parts of an "ensemble" object introduced in a text as new rhematic elements can be considered a "linear discovery". They are the result of a successive linear theme mechanism. The phrasal forms attaining the "linear discovery" correspond to the syntactic thematisation of dislocated adverbials or to the scheme S-V-Od/adverbial. None of these procedures represent a unique type constrained to the description of a "tout/ensemble" object.

Keywords

EN

phrastic forms; thematic connexity

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Linguistica Pragensia
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 26-36
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hana Loucká

• Linguistica Pragensia, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic