The authoress presents some remarks on adaptive structure of spoken complaint. The analyses demonstrate the contamination of complaint and narrative structure. In the analyzed spoken texts a narrative seems to be structurally 'stronger' genre because of its structural dominant: narrative scheme, consisting of few elements arranged in turn (Abstract, Orientation, Evaluation, Result and Coda). However, spoken complaint has also a strong dominant which is semantic dominant - negation showing speaker's attitude to events of his life. The negation exists on text surface or in a deep semantic structure of words. Analyses show that most complaint elements are located in Orientation and Coda which often contain speaker's opinion about reported events. The opinion in everyday spoken narratives may be positive or negative, and sometimes it can be even humoristic, but in spoken complaint this final opinion is always negative.
In the article author presents some remarks about genres dominants which can be structural and semantic kind. Text structural dominant is usually possible to reconstruct, constant construction pattern. Semantic dominant is not so easy to find because its indexes are not shown on the text surface - they may often be hidden in semantic structure of words. Spoken complaint is the best genre to show semantic dominant because in complaint speaker expresses the negative emotions and the ubiquitous negation that is contained in words or in they semantic structure. In spoken complaints there are plenty of negative pronouns and particles, many contrasting syntactic constructions, comparisons and exclamations with negative character, rhetorical questions, antonyms and repetition of negative characterized words.
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