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Discourse Analysis Assignment Topic: Substitution: Submitted To Ms. Fizza Aslam
Discourse Analysis Assignment Topic: Substitution: Submitted To Ms. Fizza Aslam
Assignment Topic:
Substitution
Submitted to Ms. Fizza
Aslam
Substitution
There are three general ways of substituting in a sentence: nominal, verbal, and clausal.
In nominal substitution, the most typical substitution words are one and ones . In
verbal substitution, the most common substitute is the verb do which is sometimes
used in conjunction with so as in do so.
Whereas referencing functions to link semantic meanings within text, substitution and
ellipsis differ in that they operate as a linguistic link at the lexicogrammatical level.
Substitution and ellipsis are used when a speaker or writer wishes to avoid the
repetition of a lexical item and draw on one of the grammatical resources of the
language to replace the item.
"Don't you ever read the Times, Watson? I've often advised you to do so if you
want to know something."
(Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace,
1962)
Niles: I'll have a decaf latte, and please be sure to use skim milk.
Frasier: I'll have the same.
(David Hyde Pierce and Kelsey Grammer in "You Can't Tell a Crook by His
Cover." Frazier, 1994)
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to
rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them
better."
(Abraham Lincoln)
next example, (135) is one of clausal substition, where so substitutes the previous
clause. The terms used in clausal substitution are so and not.
Thursday the sixth looks pretty good, and, so does Monday the tenth. | how 'bout
for you.
do you think we'll need an hour? | if so, how 'bout, the twenty sixth, three to four?
The examples above are all from the English corpus . . ..
Let's go and see the bears. The polar ones are over on that rock.
Did Mary take that letter? She might have done.
In clausal substitution, an entire clause is substituted.
substituted.
If youve seen them so often, you
get to know them very well.
I believe so.
so.
Everyone thinks hes guilty.
guilty. If so,
so, no doubt hell resign.
We should recognise him when we see him.
him.
Yes, but supposing not: what do we do?