COMMUNICATIVE ORGANISATION OF SUBORDINATE-COORDINATE POLYNOME IN THE MODERN GERMAN LANGUAGE (BASED ON SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE)

Abstract

This article offers a communicative study of the coordinate-subordinate polynome in the scientific discourse in modern German. Important terms of pragmatics, such as «utterance», «speech act», «composite speech act», «thematic progression» and others are discussed here too.The subordinate-coordinate polynome is a sentence, which consists of one main and at least two subordinate clauses, which are connected to each other coordinatively. Such a sentence appears because of two processes – simplification and complication, it has quite a dense structure. The addition of new clusters of information is rare. This kind of polynomes almost never has a parcellation, all the added constituents are results of detailed analysis and planning of the utterance.The subordinate-coordinate polynome is а complex speech act, which consists of speech act-thesis and speech act-arguments. Such utterances are mostly represented by сonstatives, because the main aim of the scientific discourse is to fix the results of research, to show the achievements of scientists, to represent the features of some theories and others. Quesitives are seldom used, other kinds of speech acts were not discovered in our material. Polynomes often have a second layer of information, which appears as a parenthesis. It includes not only detailisations of the main information, which is represented by a constative, but also has some directives (when some results of research or points of view should be compared). The intertext, which is constructed this way, is deeply connected to already existing studies, what allows scientists to broaden the information space und to «communicate» with other specialists.The thematic parallel progression is used in the majority of subordinate- coordinate polynomes, where the сommon main clause is theme and the subordinate clauses are a line of rhemes, so the new clusters of information.Other types of progressions, which are sometimes used in polynomes, are a linear progression and extended progression with hyper-theme and -rheme.The subordinate-coordinate polynome has typically special communicative dynamism, where the phase of tension mostly reaches the point at the end of the main clause, and the relief of the tension happens in the group of subordinate clauses. If there are some specifying subordinate clauses, which are added to the main clause, this phase will be extened. Also, some polynomes have a wide part of tension in the subordinate clauses, which are placed before the main clause. A relief of the tension is in the main clause or in the main clause and in subordinate clauses, which are connected to it. It shortly makes the tension stronger. The division of the sentence into two parts, two informative blocks is typical for polynomes in scientific discourse.