Obligatory inversion in scientific texts

Prado-Alonso, Carlos

doi:10.1080/00393274.2019.1652112

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“…The construct of the importance of the first position even transcends the boundaries of language in that first positions in anything always bring emphasis and attention, focal attention. Govindasamy and David (2002), like Huffman (1993), consider inversion and non-inversion as a system signaling varying concentrations of attention or 'degree of speaker's involvement' (Prado-Alonso, 2019). And assuming that this system of concentration of attention or involvement is available to language users, Govindasamy and David (2002) ask about how such users would exploit this system of concentration of attention for conveying messages.…”

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Inversion and word order in English: A functional perspective

Assaiqeli

Maniam

Farrah

2021

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English is an SVO (Subject, Verb, Object) word order language. This canonical SVO pattern is the default unmarked word-order configuration typical of English, which makes this language to be classified under the typology of SVO languages. However, driven by the major purpose of language as an instrument of human communication and social interaction, and as a semantic system for making meanings, addressors sometimes depart in their discourse from this basic canonical order of constituents where a grammaticalized system like inversion takes place, resulting in inverted constructions. Through testing and developing the Degree of Focus Hypothesis, proposed by Huffman (1993), this study, which employed a mixed methods research design, sought to explore the communicative and semantic values of inversion; and the pragmalinguistc functions of preposing, i.e., clause-initial adjuncts, to the pragmatic process of communication. The study confirmed the Degree of Focus Hypothesis where the hypothesized notion of concentration of attention stemming from inversion was found to be applicable. The paper stressed that what triggers inversion or non-inversion is a certain communicative effect such as focus rather than a relation of formal determination where one element determines mechanically the form or appearance of another. A contribution to linguistic and educational research, the paper, therefore, highlighted the importance of a human factor in the functioning of language and emphasized the need to break away from grammar-based teaching (traditional grammar) to discourse-based language teaching (communicative grammar) where languaging rather than language should be the focus of language teaching and learning.

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Section: Inversionmentioning

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“…SVO/SVX is the word-order configuration prevalent in English. Departures from this default canonical word order are, as noted, uncommon (Prado-Alonso, 2019).…”

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Inversion and word order in English: A functional perspective

Assaiqeli

Maniam

Farrah

2021

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“…В современной зарубежной научной литературе популярна характеристика инверсии как non-canonical word-order phenomena Prado-Alonso, 2019 -дефиниции и общей характеристики инверсии (Арнольд, 2002;Алпатов, 2002;Федотова, 2008;Бархатова, 2010;Давыдова, 2011;Кочетова, 2014;Qomariana, 2020;;…”

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Inversion in the English legal text

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Obligatory inversion in scientific texts

Cited by 2 publications

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Inversion and word order in English: A functional perspective

Inversion and word order in English: A functional perspective

Inversion in the English legal text

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