A Linguistic Study of Clause Relation as Lexical Signalling in Dramatic Text

Abstract

Linguist Winter (1977) believes that semantic linkages between phrases, sentences, or sets of sentences help to organize conversation. Furthermore, he believes that there are different methods in English to convey these semantic relationships. Winter terms these signals vocabulary 3. Vocabulary 3 has a vast variety of objects that may be altered and utilized to fit any of the sentence's functional slots, such as confirm, different, instance, problem, reason, same, solution, truth, and so on. They do, however, have many similarities with the meanings of concepts found in the closed-set, such as conjuncts and subordinators. The current study aims to characterize the lexically indicated clause relations and rhetorical patterns in selected English theatrical text. It also attempts to find lexical signals in such text in order to indicate clause relations in the text. Because of the importance of lexical signalling items in the development and understanding of conversation, language learners must include them into their courses.