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LSP in Use: Pragmatic Aspect of Lingual Rhythm
The article is devoted to a most specific type of language for specific purposes – the language of art – artistic literature. The organizing law of the unity of all elements of an art form creates style. It turns text into complete identity reproducing the unity of life in the art world created by the author. One of the carriers of style is rhythm. Rhythm may turn a simple sequence of speech elements into a significant sequence, a meaningful unity. The objective of the article is to master a working approach to the intricacies of lingual rhythm as related to the informational content of utterance and to demonstrate the living connection between the rhythmic patterns of utterances and their semantic-functional patterns. Rhythm, defined as a highly integrated substance, is interpreted in terms of the organic part of the general information rendered by topical chunks of speech. In imaginative speech, it constitutes an important functional sphere, powerfully affecting the reader’s perceptions, both rational and emotional. The hypothesis proposed is that at the basis of all speech production lies rhythm as alternation of repeated elements of various categorical statuses.