Publication details
Supplementive Clauses in Resolutions
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Theory and Practice in English Studies 3, Proceedings from the Eighth Conference on English, American and Canadian Studies (Linguistics) |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | supplementive clauses; semantic function; position in the sentence; FSP; genre; structural parallelism |
| Description | The paper studies the form and function of supplementive adverbial clauses in written formal institutional discourse, taking the example of UNESCO documents. The analysis concentrates on the realization type, position and semantic role of supplementive clauses. The findings evidence that UNESCO resolutions are characterized by a high frequency of occurrence of homosemantic series of subjectless supplementive clauses in medial position. The functional interpretation of the quantitative findings accounts for the textual role of supplementive clauses and for the contextual tasks they perform in referring to the situational context of diplomatic discourse. |