SYNTACTIC PATTERNS OF TAUTOLOGIES AND THEIR SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION
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https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2021.25.1.076Keywords:
syntactic pattern, tautological structure, principle of cooperation, principle of linguistic economy, communicative intention, context, communicative implicatureAbstract
The present paper aims to reveal the syntactic patterns of English tautological structures, and to examine their functional-communicative peculiarities in line with Gricean Principle of Cooperation. By virtue of their simple predicative structure, tautologies save the speaker’s/writer’s time and efforts in the process of speech production, whereas, on the plane of content, they possess a multilayered semantic potential. The analysis shows that the speaker/ writer opts for the given syntactic pattern of tautology in accord with their communicative intention in the given speech situation.
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2022-03-14
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