The Communicative Function of English Parenthetical Constructions

Authors

  • Marine Yaghubyan Department of English for Cross-Cultural Communication, Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2018.14.1-2.019

Keywords:

parenthetical constructions, communicative competence, communicative function, communicative skill

Abstract

The main function of parenthetical constructions is to characterize the sentence from the position of the speaker to the listener. In English parenthetical constructions are essential, since they not only connect ideas, sentences, paragraphs making them more cohesive, but also introduce contrast or opposition, emphasis or agreement, purpose, result or conclusion, etc.

We try to demonstrate how parenthetical constructions provide and convey communicative functions in spoken and written discourse. However, one should also note that parenthetical constructions cannot carry out the communicative shifts independently; hence the certain communicative shift is relatively dependent on the context.

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Published

2018-10-15

How to Cite

Yaghubyan, M. (2018). The Communicative Function of English Parenthetical Constructions. Armenian Folia Anglistika, 14(1-2 (18), 19–28. https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2018.14.1-2.019

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Linguistics