Discourse Markers as Means of Compositional Integrity in English Last Wills and Testaments

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dc.citation.spage50
dc.contributor.affiliationLviv Polytechnic National University
dc.contributor.authorKulyna, Olha
dc.coverage.placenameЛьвів ; Харків
dc.coverage.placenameLviv ; Kharkiv
dc.coverage.temporal22-23 April 2021, Kharkiv
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-23T10:50:18Z
dc.date.available2022-05-23T10:50:18Z
dc.date.created2021-05-04
dc.date.issued2021-05-04
dc.description.abstractA Last Will and Testament as a legal document of Inheritance Law is of particular importance for the life of modern societies of all developed and underdeveloped countries. The research focuses on the complex analysis of the study of English Last Will and Testament as a social and communicative phenomenon which is a repetitive speech act that generates a typical linguistic layout of the content to meet the communicative needs of a testator/testatrix on the issue of the inheritance of property and money after their death in the situation of bequest. The corpus of the research contains 400 wills written in England between 1837 and 2015 (525 023 characters). Attention is paid to discourse markers which provide structural integrity of the text in wills. The main aim of this article is to conduct the analysis of discourse markers found in English Last Wills and Testaments. The classification of discourse markers by B. Fraser has been used in the study. A structural method has been applied to single out groups of discourse markers. Discourse markers of sequence as a subtype of discourse activity markers, parallel discourse markers, contrastive discourse markers, elaborative discourse markers and inferential discourse markers as subtypes of message relationship markers are common in the texts of Last Wills and Testaments. These markers complement the content of a previous statement, combine parts of a sentence, introduce new information, contrast events, actions and even participants. The usage of discourse markers facilities communication and ensures the compositional integrity of the text.
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dc.identifier.citationKulyna O. Discourse Markers as Means of Compositional Integrity in English Last Wills and Testaments / Olha Kulyna // Computational linguistics and intelligent systems, 22-23 April 2021, Kharkiv. — Lviv ; Kharkiv, 2021. — Vol Vol. II : Proceedings of the 5th International conference, COLINS 2021, Workshop, Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 22-23. — P. 50–57.
dc.identifier.citationenKulyna O. Discourse Markers as Means of Compositional Integrity in English Last Wills and Testaments / Olha Kulyna // Computational linguistics and intelligent systems, 22-23 April 2021, Kharkiv. — Lviv ; Kharkiv, 2021. — Vol Vol. II : Proceedings of the 5th International conference, COLINS 2021, Workshop, Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 22-23. — P. 50–57.
dc.identifier.issn2523-4013
dc.identifier.urihttps://ena.lpnu.ua/handle/ntb/56820
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofComputational linguistics and intelligent systems, 2021
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dc.relation.urihttp://dis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/1/159
dc.relation.urihttp://info.legalzoom.com/
dc.relation.urihttp://www.aclweb.org/anthology/Y14-1052
dc.relation.urihttps://books.google.com.ua/books/about/A_Treatise_of_Testaments_and_Last_Wills.html?id=h34zAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
dc.relation.urihttp://www.wata.cc/forums/uploaded/136_1165014660.pdf
dc.relation.urihttp://www.nzlii.org/nz/legis/consol_act/wa1837121.pdf
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dc.subjectLast Will and Testament
dc.subjectdiscourse marker
dc.subjectcompositional integrity
dc.subjectstructural method
dc.titleDiscourse Markers as Means of Compositional Integrity in English Last Wills and Testaments
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