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Pragmasintaksička analiza jednog tipa padežne sintagme
A Pragma-syntactic Analysis of One Type of Case Syntagm

Author(s): Miloš Kovačević
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: pragma-syntactic analysis; syntagma; semantic; illocutionary and perlocutionary power; linguistic pragmatics;

Summary/Abstract: In his pragma-syntactic analysis the author takes into consideration those statements which comprise the syntagmas with the verbs kritikovati i osuditi (to criticize and to blame) as directive elements. The analysis, primarily, takes into account pragmatic conditions of the case collocation type for the verbs (i. e. kritikovati i osuđivati Milana zbog nemarnosti / Milanovu nemarnost / nemarnost — to criticize or blame Milan for has negligence / Milan’s negligence). The choice between the two given types of determiners is related to the pragmatic value of the statement: to their illocutionary and perlocutionary power. The syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis, focusing on the pragmatic criteria has proved that the statements with the presented types of syntagmas are pragmatically in-equivalent, because each of them is communicatively inadequate to the Context of the other. This pragmatic in-equivalency is the reason for different structural organizations and semantic values' of each of the presented statements.

  • Issue Year: 17/1988
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 133-139
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bosnian