Functional And Stylistic Features of Nominative Sentences in English and Uzbek Discourse
Keywords:
Nominative sentence, nominal sentence, one-member sentence, stylistics, discourse, functional style, foregrounding, compression, expressiveness, English, Uzbek, comparative analysis.Abstract
This article examines the functional and stylistic features of nominative sentences in English and Uz-bek discourse. The study focuses on how nominal one-member constructions operate as stylistic re-sources rather than treating them merely as structurally reduced sentences. A comparative qualitative analysis is applied to representative examples from literary, journalistic, conversational, official and advertising discourse. The analysis demonstrates that nominative sentences may perform several re-lated functions: scene-setting, foregrounding, informational compression, descriptive visualization, emotional intensification, rhythmic organization, headline-style condensation and discourse segmen-tation. Their stylistic effect is closely connected with discourse position, lexical choice, expansion of the nominal nucleus, punctuation, repetition and surrounding context. English and Uzbek share a broad functional potential, but its realization differs because of their grammatical and discourse-organizational resources. English makes extensive use of determiners, fixed constituent patterns and punctuation, while Uzbek permits greater nominal flexibility and uses agglutinative morphology to encode relations within expanded nominal structures. The article argues that the stylistic interpreta-tion of nominative sentences should be based on the interaction of structural form, discourse type and communicative context.
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