Style Markers of Resolutions: Clause Patterns and Verb
Complementation

J 2007

Style Markers of Resolutions: Clause Patterns and Verb Complementation

DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga

Basic information

Original name

Style Markers of Resolutions: Clause Patterns and Verb Complementation

Name in Czech

Stylistické markery rezolucí: větné struktury a slovesné fráze

Authors

DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga (100 Bulgaria, guarantor)

Edition

Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty Brněnské univerzity, Řada anglistická: Brno Studies in English 33, Brno, Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2007, 1211-1791

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14410/07:00033067

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

Keywords (in Czech)

stylistické markery-slovesná fráze-základní větné struktury-performativní věty-semantické domény sloves-direktivní slovesa-expresivní slovesa-žánrová analýza

Keywords in English

style markers - verb complementation - main clause patterns - performatives - semantic domains of verbs - directive verbs - expressive verbs - genre analysis

Abstract

ORIG CZ

V originále

The primary aim of the present investigation is to describe stylistically relevant clause patterns and verb complementation in resolutions, a genre of formal written discourse in institutional settings. As resolutions are typically one-sentence texts of different lengths, they are characterised by considerable structural complexity, which is motivated by the presence of embedded clauses, heavily modified noun phrases and nominalizations. Since processing condensed structures imposes greater demands on the reader, structural complexity is related to processing complexity; however, in the case of highly specialized professional discourses which are not intended for the general public, processing complexity is reduced as a result of the experience gathered in working with the genre. Therefore an awareness of the recurrent structural patterns used in the genre of resolutions may be seen as a factor facilitating discourse processing and thus reducing its complexity.

In Czech

Článek zkoumá stylistické prostředky žánru rezoluce, jakožto představitele administrativního stylu v mezinárodním prostředí, který tíhne k použití ustálených forem a výrazů. Analýza, provedená na vzorku textů rezolucí UNESCO (45 000 slov), se zaměřuje na větné struktury a slovesné fráze. Autorka vychází z předpokladu, že znalost opakujících se větných struktur napomáhá koherentní interpretaci diskurzu, a tím i porozumění jinak velmi komplexních administrativních textů, jejichž zpracování a porozumění je velmi náročné jak ze syntaktického tak i ze sémantického hlediska.

Citovat

DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga. Style Markers of Resolutions: Clause Patterns and Verb Complementation. Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty Brněnské univerzity, Řada anglistická: Brno Studies in English 33. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2007, vol. 33, S13, p. 73-90. ISSN 1211-1791.

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DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga. Style Markers of Resolutions: Clause Patterns and Verb Complementation. \textit{Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty Brněnské univerzity, Řada anglistická: Brno Studies in English 33}. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2007, vol.~33, S13, p.~73-90. ISSN~1211-1791.

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