<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The study focuses on the communication-oriented analysis and interpretation of semantic and communicative (illocutive) functions of the Slovak conjunction kým [‘while’]. Research is based on the text material of the Slovak National Corpus containing synchronic dynamics of the sentence in which the conjunction kým [‘while’] expresses temporal and/or contrastive meanings. Kým [‘while’] is understood as a poly-semantic and poly-functional word which forms relations of limitative, successive, simultaneous and contrastive-simultaneous coincidence between an independent clause (P) and a whileclause (Q). Regarding the semantic functions of the conjunction, the study also discusses the function of temporal and pragmatic collocations, and complementary and competitive use of synonymous conjunctions. It verifies the connections between the actual dispositions of the conjunction kým [‘while’] and a dialogic or narrative interpretation, the choice of perspective and the sentence order. A part of the study presents the use of the conjunction kým [‘while’] in the communicative functions of assertion, direction, interrogation, satisfaction, commission and admonition. It demonstrates the dominance of illocutions which are based on the negative life experience of a speaker</p></abstract>

The study focuses on the communication-oriented analysis and interpretation of semantic and communicative (illocutive) functions of the Slovak conjunction kým [‘while’]. Research is based on the text material of the Slovak National Corpus containing synchronic dynamics of the sentence in which the conjunction kým [‘while’] expresses temporal and/or contrastive meanings. Kým [‘while’] is understood as a poly-semantic and poly-functional word which forms relations of limitative, successive, simultaneous and contrastive-simultaneous coincidence between an independent clause (P) and a whileclause (Q). Regarding the semantic functions of the conjunction, the study also discusses the function of temporal and pragmatic collocations, and complementary and competitive use of synonymous conjunctions. It verifies the connections between the actual dispositions of the conjunction kým [‘while’] and a dialogic or narrative interpretation, the choice of perspective and the sentence order. A part of the study presents the use of the conjunction kým [‘while’] in the communicative functions of assertion, direction, interrogation, satisfaction, commission and admonition. It demonstrates the dominance of illocutions which are based on the negative life experience of a speaker

Spojka Kým V Sémantických A Komunikačných Súvislostiach

Katedra rusistiky Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The study focuses on the communication-oriented analysis and interpretation of semantic and communicative (illocutive) functions of the Slovak conjunction kým...

Spojka Kým V Sémantických A Komunikačných Súvislostiach

Data publikacji: 24 lip 2015

Zakres stron: 17 - 39

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2015-0009

Słowa kluczowe
semantics, conjunction kým [‘while’], perspective, communicative function, interpretation

© Jazykovedný ústav Ludovíta Stúra, SAV, Bratislava

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Spojka Kým V Sémantických A Komunikačných Súvislostiach

Data publikacji: 24 lip 2015

Zakres stron: 17 - 39

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2015-0009

Słowa kluczowesemantics, conjunction kým [‘while’], perspective, communicative function, interpretation

© Jazykovedný ústav Ludovíta Stúra, SAV, Bratislava

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
semantics, conjunction kým [‘while’], perspective, communicative function, interpretation