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Actul comunicativ din perspectivă discursiv-pragmatică. Modalizarea în limba română contemporană
A Discoursive-Pragmatic Approach to the Communicative Act. Modalization in Contemporary Romanian

Author(s): Lizica Mihut, Bianca Miuta
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu
Keywords: pattern-making; speech; communication; discoursive-pragmatic perspective

Summary/Abstract: When people speak, they shape words, they establish relations between them, they select the contentwhich is appropriate for their intention of conveying ideas. The links between morphology and syntax areobvious: the form of the words is enforced by the rules of syntactic combination of words, in order to giveour ideas content. It could even be said that morphology exists because of syntax, i.e. words acquire theirmeaning in a context.

  • Issue Year: 1/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 69-75
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian