Sentence radical
In speech act theory, a sentence radical is understood as the common description of a state of affairs ( proposition ) in different sentence types with the same lexical content, i.e. H. the same lexemes with the same syntactic connection. The counterpart to this term is the sentence mode , for example: question ( or interrogative ), statement ( or declarative ) or prompt ( or imperative ) sentence . The term pair sentence radical / sentence mode comes from the Finnish philosopher Erik Stenius , who refers to a concept formation by Ludwig Wittgenstein . The corresponding theoretical distinction goes back to Gottlob Frege . While in the sentence radical the truth-functional content of a sentence or its proposition is reproduced - one can grasp it in a truth-value-functional semantics - the mode of a sentence indicates the respective type or what is the case of the speech act .
For example, the sentences contain:
- Lola runs.
- Is Lola running?
- Lola run!
as a common sentence radical (the descriptive content of the verbalization) "the running of Lola", expressed by the lexemes "Lola" and "run" as well as their connection as subject (here also agent ) and predicate . They differ, however, in the sentence mode (mode that determines the meaning of the sentence): In the first case it is a statement sentence, in the second a question sentence, in the third a prompt sentence.
literature
- Erik Stenius: Mood and Language Game . Synthesis 1967/17, 254-274.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Krallmann, Gerhard Stickel: On the theory of the question: Lectures of the Bad Homburg Colloquium, 13.-15. November 1978. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-8780-8652-0 , p. 63, footnote
- ↑ Sigrun Welke-Holtmann: The communication between women and men: Dialog structures in the narrative texts of the Hebrew Bible. LIT Verlag, Münster, 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7198-3 , pp. 31–32.