FUNCTIONS OF INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES IN SCHOLARLY-CRITICAL DISCOURSE
Journal Title: Львівський філологічний часопис - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue
Abstract
The article analyzes the functions of interrogative sentences in the scientific-critical discourse on the material of David Lodge's works. The groups of syntactic structures as a rhetorical question and a hypophora were identified; their structure and the nature of the relationship with the answer were studied in view of their functions. Interrogative sentences are widely used in David Lodge’s scholarly-critical works. Their purpose is to draw attention to a certain phenomenon. The peculiarity of the rhetorical question is that its syntactic form does not correspond to its logical content. In a scholarly-critical text, this type of question is perceived as an emotional proposition that implements two syntactic values – the meaning of the question and the force of the statement. In the examples given, the author's text is a concealed form of dialogue: the author seems to enter into conversation with his reader, draws his attention to the main point of presentation. The rhetorical question is a bright stylistic device that reflects the communicative nature of the language. Therefore, we conclude them as the means of expressiveness of the scholarly language. The use of hypophora in scholarly-critical texts is the result of the influence of living spoken language on all discourses of contemporary English. However, the questions in the scholarly-critical discourse are peculiar, because in the texts we analyze, they focus the reader's attention on certain statements, activate his attention and thinking. Specificity of hypophora in scholarly-critical discourse consists in the fact that the author answers the questions, although the question is often asked on behalf of the reader, that is, it presupposes the reader's question. Generally, in scholarly presentation there are examples in which the answer and questions are separated from each other by parts of the statement. However, according to our observations in the scholarly texts of recent years, hypophora represents unity, where the answer is not separated from the question by other parts of the utterance.
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Анна Ярославівна Савчук
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