Степень выраженности валентностного синсемантизма структурных элементов каузальных высказываний в английском языке (на материале стенограмм американских предвыборных теледебатов)

Abstract

The research objective includes identifying the level of valent synsemanticism of causal synsemantic constructions in the English-language political discourse. In spite of the wide range of publications on this issue, valent synsemanticism is still poorly investigated. Scientific originality of the study involves developing a grading scale to assess the level of synsemanticism of the English causal constructions in terms of obligatory/optional semantic and syntactic valency. The research findings are as follows: by the material of the US presidential and vice presidential TV debates, the author proves that the English causal synsemantic constructions are characterized by absolute, moderate and relative synsemanticism conditioned by their communicative valency and explicatory specificity, which, in its turn, is conditioned by optional syntactic valency.