COMMUNICATIVE SENTENCE PERSPECTIVE AND THE GIVEN/NEW AGREEMENT
Vinogradova Svetlana Grigor'evna
Tambov State University named after G. R. Derzhavin
Abstract. In the article, the communicative sentence perspective is cognitively considered in the framework of the given/new agreement. The author argues that the relationship of given and new is based on the human ability to organize his or her linguistic knowledge of the world as gestalts and configure this knowledge in the course of communication.
Key words and phrases: коммуникативное членение предложения, информация, данное, новое, знание, когнитивный, communicative sentence perspective, information, given, new, knowledge, cognitive
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