DISCOURSE PERFORMANСЕ FORMULAE AS THE CONSTRUCTIONS “IN ACTION”. PART II. SYNTACTIC ASPECT

The paper analyses the utterances which are the part of such a communicative event as the performance. These utterances are structured according to the slogan type. Such statements include slogans, mottos, appeals, demands, which can be combined in the general group of “the discourse performance formulae”. The definition of the concept of the discourse performance formulae is given in the paper.

From the point of view of structural and semantic aspect, the discourse performance formulae (DPF) represent the constructions of a special type. As a result of the analysis, it has been found that the most frequent constructions are those whose semantic core is the meaning of the imperative. By their structure, the DPF are quite diverse and heterogeneous. The idea of inducement in a sentence can be expressed both through morphological and other language means.

The paper focuses on the utterances that have no special morphological indexes of the inducement. The main objective is to identify the typical ways of expressing the meaning of motivation peculiar to the discourse performance formulae formed without a verb.

The analysis reveals the most frequent type of structural schemes of the sentences, upon which the discourse performance formulae are organized; identifies the peculiarities of the inducement expression in the discourse performance formulae; distinguishes the discourse performance formulae which have no special syntactical sample and refer to the so-called “syntactical phraseological units”; and examines such discourse performance formulae in which connections and relations of the components are inexplicable from the point of the grammar rules but which are widespread in the communicative performance due to their effectiveness and operation as the constructions “in action”.