ON INTERPRETATION OF TAUTOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN MODERN ENGLISH
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https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2014/18.2.064Keywords:
tautology, conversational implicature, Cooperative Principle, Maxim of Quantity, communicative situationAbstract
Semantic syntax is based on the notion that any syntactic structure is primarily designed to describe a certain type of relation in reality and each type of relationship in reality finds its preferred expression in a particular syntactic structure. Tautologies are no exception in this respect. The present paper aims at their analysis in line with contemporary linguistic theories, which makes it possible to reveal the peculiarities of their functioning in discourse and to define their role in transferring the speaker’s/writer’s communicative intention in the given speech situation.
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2023-01-05
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