STAGE DIRECTIONS AND THEIR ACTUALIZATION IN ADJOINING CONSTRUCTIONS AND COMPOSITE SENTENCES

Abstract

Up to now, far too little attention has been paid to the problems of text morphology, identification of means of joining separate sentences and supra-sentence entities to form larger text units and to the study of linguistic units that are their constituent parts. Even less attention is turned by linguists to the examining of extralingual means and their actualization in text units (which are investigated by us on the example of adjoining constructions (ACs) and composite sentences). Few studies in this regard are limited to the analysis of only stage directions within the frameworks of the ACs with coordinating relationship and compound sentences, as well as only in drama works. Thus, the ACs with subordinating relationship and complex sentences as well as texts of the other genres and functional styles are excluded. However, it has long been known that both linguistic and non-linguistic means of communication are interconnected and interdependent. Accordingly, without taking into account the latter, the content of the utterance may be incorrectly decoded by a reader. Thus, it is not enough for a linguist to confine himself to analysing only speech material. One must also take into account physical actions (gestures, facial expressions, etc.), intonations that carry a certain communicative load and in a real text turn into verbal form for their visual perception. It is noted that in the AC there occurs a formal separation and, at the same time, semantic adjoining of parts of one complex utterance. Unlike compound sentences which are not divided into parts by a stage direction, the cases of segmenting of complex sentences are registered (just as it occurs in the ACs). The conclusion was drawn about the universality of separating properties of the interpositively located stage directions in relation to the AC and CSs in terms of form with maintaining the semantic unity of their parts.