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| Title in English | Setence and utterance in a sign conception of language |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Karlík a továrna na lingvistiku. Prof. Petru Karlíkovi k šedesátým narozeninám |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | sentence utterance linguistic sign differential approach to sign structuralism |
| Description | Sentence and utterance are defined as the central explanatory units of the abstract system of language and of the concrete texts, be they written or spoken, respectively. They are defined in absolute mutual independence. The surrounding sign conception is a strictly binarist one, which makes the meaning of a sentence being described only by negative opposition to other sentences that are system-allowed. The following features are recognized as particularly pertinent to this description: intonational shape, lexical units, syntagmatic relations between and paradigmatic relations of the lexical units, coordination and apposition, topic-focus articulation. The utterance, which is an utterance only due to its interpretable sense, and which – unlike the sentence – is provided with a situational anchorage and a genre classification, serves as the only criterion for a sentence to be system-allowed: any sentence, that in a particular utterance makes interpretable sense, is a good sentence in accordance with the system. |
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