Extralingual factors as part of supra-sentence units

Abstract

Up to now, far too little attention has been paid to the examining of extralingual means and their actualization in text units, which are investigated on the example of adjoining constructions and composite sentences. Both linguistic and non-linguistic means of communication are interconnected and interdependent. Accordingly, without taking into account the latter, the content of the utterance may be incorrectly decoded by a reader. Thus, it is not enough for a linguist to confine himself to analysing only speech. One must also take into account physical actions (gestures, facial expressions, etc.), intonations that carry a certain communicative load and in a real text turn into verbal form for their visual perception.