ON POLIFUNCTIONAL NATURE OF HEDGES IN DISCOURSE
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія «Філологія» - Year 2017, Vol 30, Issue 2
Abstract
The objective of the present paper is twofold: (1) to describe functional semantics of the hedge expressed by the pseudo-performative clause with the personal pronoun “I + verb (mental)” in the ST within the framework of Functional Semantics and Discourse-Analysis and, second, to specify its transformation and transposition into the TT in the framework of contrastive semantics. The analysis of the corpus of 114 text fragments retrieved from the novel “The Firm” by John Grisham and the think verb distribution, i.e. its lexical-grammatical and lexical-semantic combinability gives us a possibility to draw its definition “to have as an intention” which points to the transposition of the I think – performative matrix into the I think –informative matrix and therein the speaker’s information (idea, point of view) turns the matrix into the I think- deliberation or approximation. Thus the lexical meaning of the verb think in the I think speech act undergoes a functional-semantic shift.
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V. V. Mykhaylenko
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