Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


influence function

A Paragraph of Fiction Prose as a Functional Speech Unit

Among some formal elements featuring a particular communicative significance of fiction prose paragraphs, the article distinguishes such syntactic and stylistic structures in the text of I. Murdoch’s novel An Unofficial Rose as interrogatory, negative, emphatic ones, as well as a specific use of deictic elements and conjunctions.