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Transitional Verbs Operating in the Presentation Scale Sentences within Fiction Narratives (An Attempt at a Dynamic and a Static Semantic Analysis)
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | Advocating a dynamic approach to the semantic analysis, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) represents a logical counterpart of what is usually referred to as static semantics. In the framework of FSP, aptly elaborated by Jan Firbas (summarised in Firbas 1992), the English verb tends to be the mediator (i.e. transition) between the theme and the rheme. Every sentence implements one of the dynamic semantic scales, which functionally reflect the distribution of communicative dynamism and operate irrespective of word order. In principle, Firbas distinguishes two types of the dynamic semantic scales: the Presentation Scale and the Quality Scale. The present paper looks at the role of the English verb operating in the Presentation Scale sentences within fiction narratives from the point of view of both dynamic and static semantics. |
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