The vagaries of the subject it: can it serve as a style marker?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The vagaries of the subject it: can it serve as a style marker?

Original language description

This article analyses the distribution of the different functions of the subjet it in two text types: academic prose and fiction. Its objective is to discover to what extent and in which aspects the two examined text types differ. The analysis is based on two hundred examples of it in the subject function obtained from the British National Corpus (BNC), one half of them drawn from academic prose, the other from fiction. The functions of it analysed include anaphoric it, anticipatory it, empty it and it as the subject in a cleft sentence (focusing it). Additionaly, the instances of it that did not fit into any of the four main categories are also examined.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Linguistica Pragensia

ISSN

0862-8432

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Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1/2016

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

35-47

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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