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Vol. 25 (2015): Struktura słowa a interpretacja świata

Struktura morfologiczna słowa a jego funkcja interakcyjna

  • Grażyna Habrajska
Submitted
14 November 2016
Published
14-11-2016

Abstract

The morphological structure of a word and its interactive function

The author, taking the assumptions of communicative grammar, shows the relationship of the morphological structure of a word and its persuasive function. Habrajska studies many examples of derivatives, which introduce an emotive and evaluative element to speech. In addition to affixes of native origin, the article presents popular prefixes in contemporary Polish as super-, arcy-, ekstra- that bring high positive evaluation. The analysis presented in the article also refers to the conditional and imperative forms which can introduce to the utterance various speech acts, such as a request odwiedzilibyście babcięWould you visit grandmother, and different speech acts persuading to act, or even wishes śpij spokojnie, bądź zdrówsleep well, be in good health.