Informational Organization of the Sentence in Romanian

Abstract

The article contains a description of the informational structure of the sentence in its capacity as a layer of meaning constituted as an effect of its contextual updating. A complex phenomenon of a discursive nature, the informational structure of the utterance requires an interpretation of the facts of language by taking into account the interrelationship between the semantic, syntactic and discursive factors involved in the act of communication. The semantic-pragmatic specificity of the informational structure of the sentence is analysed starting from the extralinguistic factors that control it. Particular attention is paid to the distinctive features of the minimal units of this structure. The criteria for identifying the topic and the rhyme of a sentence are presented, with emphasis on the recognition of the units in question in the process of linguistic analysis. By examining this layer of meaning, our goal is to show that the Romanian language has a complex mechanism that allows its expression and variation in relation to other layers of meaning of the sentence.

Keywords

• informational structure of the utterance
• referential-semantic structure of the utterance
• layer of meaning
• theme
• rheme
• thematization
• rhematization