CLASSIFICATION OF IMPLICIT MEANS OF DENOTING A FUTURE ACTION
https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2020-1-21-21-27
Abstract
The article investigates the phenomenon of temporal implicitness and examines different means of temporal location of a future action in the English discourse from the standpoint of cognitive linguistics and functional semantics. We chose to base our research on the texts of leaders/ editorials from The Economist (one of the most influential British journals, the language of which is a good example of modern standard British English), which provided the corpus for the present paper. The examples for our analysis were selected by means of continuous sampling. In the article we explore time-related characteristics of various discourse units describing a future action. In the research we also make an attempt to create a classification of implicit means of future time reference and analyze the peculiarities of generating and interpreting time-implicit texts. The article suggests a universal classification of implicit temporal structures and demonstrates the difference between the sets of implicit means of denoting a past and a future action. In-depth analysis of modality and of “Future-in-the-Past” constructions is reserved for further research.
About the Author
O. V. Larina
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga V. Larina – PhD, Assistant Professor at Department of the English Language №8, MGIMO. Spheres of interest: English grammar, cognitive linguistics, grammar synonymy
76, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454, Russian Federation.
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Larina O.V. CLASSIFICATION OF IMPLICIT MEANS OF DENOTING A FUTURE ACTION. Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2020;21(1):21-27. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2020-1-21-21-27
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