3.5. Text as an Object of Grammar

Topics for Discussion Explain the difference between such terms as the clause, the sentence, the utterance and the logical Proposion. How is information conveyed by a sentence structure? Which language means serve to express and identify the theme and the rheme? Self-Study Issue: What is an illocutionary act, an illocutionary force, a perlocutionary act, propositional content of the utterance? Practical Assignments Identify the theme and the rheme in sentences in the text to the previous seminar. Specify the means of expressing it.

utterance pragmatics proposition actual division of the sentence theme (topic) rheme (comment) presupposition inverted and direct actual division