EXPLETIVE IT AND TRUTH VALUE IN ACADEMIC WRITING

Abstract

In this paper we have analyzed syntactic structures with expletive it in terms of truth-value of the sentences in which they appear within the scope of academic writing. They have been considered as presupposition triggers and propositional attitude reports. The paper also presents a communicative approach to writing academic texts, taking the peculiarities of their syntactic structure as a starting point.

Authors and Affiliations

Kh. B. Kunets

Keywords

Related Articles

Live language sources of the national heroic epic (on the example of the texts of doom)

In article attempt of reviewing of the facts of a national basis of language of thoughts (at lexical level) which sequentially are used in modern oral conversation to the environment of carriers of the Ukrainian language...

Grammatikalizaton in German verbs with the separable prefix ab- in the 16th century

The article focuses on the study of grammaticalization in verbs with the separable prefix ab- in the German language of the 16th century. The research reveals that ab- turns from the part of a compound word into the pref...

Objectivity effect embodiment in English Internet news stories: unambiguity and parameterization tactics

The study reveals that the objectivity embodiment in English Internet news stories is represented by unambiguity and parameterization tactics which make event participants prominent against the background of others and s...

The role of professional criticism in the literary process

The article reviews the role of the prominent literary critic, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Bakir Nabiyev, who played an exceptional role in the development, both in the 1960s and 1980s,...

Peculiarities of grammatical transformations application in the process of English fiction translation into Ukrainian and Russian

On the basis of comparative analysis the author investigates the issue of grammatical transformations application during the translation process of the story “The Masque of the Red Death. A Fantasy” by E.A. Poe into Ukra...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP461457
  • DOI -
  • Views 134
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Kh. B. Kunets (2017). EXPLETIVE IT AND TRUTH VALUE IN ACADEMIC WRITING. Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія «Філологія», 27(2), 65-67. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-461457