The Discursive Variants of the Sentence Constituted as an Effect of its Contextual Updating: Typology Sketch

Abstract

The primary objective of this article is to establish and describe the discursive variants

of the sentence representing its communicative paradigm. Constituted as a result of the

adequacy of a sentence to communicative context, the discursive variants suppose, in

linguistic terms, the variation of the informational structure of the sentence in relation to

its semantic-syntactic structure. Described in terms of old/new information, the discursive

variants are formed due to the operations involved in the discursive updating of the

fundamental structures of the sentences, which are the thematisation and rhematisation of

certain component elements of the sentence. The model that presents the sentence as a set

of discursive variants combines semantic, syntactic and pragmatic or discursive criteria.

Thus, in the process of analyzing these variants, the role of determining factors in the

informational organization of the sentence was taken into account, these aspects being

correlated with the marks of the informational structure of the sentence.