GRAMMATICAL-SYNTACTIC AND TEXT-TYPOLOGICAL FEATURES OF CRAFT DISCOURSE IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS
Keywords:
craft discourse, imperative mood, ellipsis, cohesion, theme–rheme structure, instructive text, genre moves, agglutinative language, analytic language, isomorphism, allomorphism.Abstract
The paper examines the grammatical, syntactic and text-typological organisation of craft discourse in English and Uzbek. Drawing on functional grammar, cohesion theory, genre analysis and functional sentence perspective, it analyses imperative forms, simple and complex sentences, ellipsis, cause-and-effect relations, cohesive devices, theme–rheme structure and genre moves in instructions, master– apprentice dialogue and artisan–customer communication.
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