VOL. 61, BOOK 1, PART B, 2023, pp. 105 – 116 Full text (En)
Author: Slavka Grancharova
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
The article discusses the correlations between grammatical and communicative word order and the potential problems which the divergence between them might pose in teaching and translation practices. The communicative analysis is based on the FSP (Functional Sentence Perspective) theory elaborated by the Prague linguists. The differences in word order between English and Bulgarian, as well as some similarities, are illustrated by examples from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the Bulgarian National Corpus (BNC). The focus is on some practical grammar issues and not on teaching methodology or translation theory and practice.
Key words: word order, FSP theory, inversion, communicative analysis
