THE FUNCTIONING OF THE TEXT CLIP AND THEN IN THE POSITION OF THE BEGINNING OF THE SENTENCE

Abstract

The paper is dedicated to an analysis of functioning of a text clip And then in the position of the beginning of the sentence. The objective of the study is to describe the main features of the functioning of the text clip And then in the position of the beginning of the sentence in monological and dialogical texts through linguistic analysis. In the article, a brief review of the works that study text clips and argumentation is presented. The source of factual material is from the National Corpus of the Russian language. Due to the analysis of the usage of those examples from corpus, the research result demonstrates that in monological and dialogical texts, the text clip And then, in the position of the beginning of the sentence, introduces an additional argument, which can be contained either only in the composition of a sentence that includes clip, or can develop as part of several sentences following a sentence with a clip. In the latter case, the clip introduces the beginning of the argument. In contrast to monologue, in a dialogical text, the additional argument introduced with a clip is a reaction to what another person has said.