Aspects of Functional Sentence Perspective in Contemporary English News and Academic Prose - Softcover

Martin Drapela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8021056819 ISBN 13: 9788021056817

Publisher: Masaryk University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The study investigates selected aspects of Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP) in contemporary English news and academic prose, namely the information contour of text, the occurrence of communicative units and communicative fields, violation of the FSP linearity principle, the occurrence of dynamic semantic scales, dynamics of broad and narrow scenes, and the types of thematic progressions, including simple linear thematic progressions, progressions with continuous (constant) themes, and progressions with derived themes. These aspects are taken into consideration to address a hypothesis that FSP phenomena are stylistically relevant.

Edition details

• Publisher: Masaryk University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8021056819
• ISBN 13: 9788021056817
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114