https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.18198
The paper elaborates on the problem of foregrounding strategies in lyrical discourse. One of them consists in that first some linguistic canon (which may be syntactic, lexical, or pragmatic, and which may be both general, genre-specific or even text-specific) is notoriously violated, but at some later point of the text it still becomes operative; the fragment where such a ‘restitution’ occurs tends to be construed as the foreground. It is argued that this general tendency shows up in the building of information structure of relevant sentences: sometimes the backgrounded parts of the poem contain non-prototypical themes or rhemes, while prototypical ones become articulators of the foreground. Some thought is given to the notion of prototypicality of themes and rhemes; the most salient properties of ‘model’ theme are assumed to be its discourse givenness, explicitness, semantic specificity, high morphosyntactic rank, reference to the first or second person, and the ‘model’ rheme is assumed to display discourse-newness and shortness. Four case studies are offered; those are analyzes of the poems by Georgiy Ivanov. In conclusion, reasons are adduced supporting the claim that the above described ‘rheme redressment’ lies at the core of the whole discourse-building strategy in question, while other relevant devices could be viewed
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No. 1 (189) (2025)
Published: 2025-03-31
10.31261/pr
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