Investigating the Role of Complex Sentences in Meaning Conveyance in Various Text Types: A Genre-based Study
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https://doi.org/10.31185/bsj.Vol21.Iss38.1511Keywords:
Complex Sentences, Meaning Conveyance, Sentence Complexity, Genre Analysis, Functional GrammarAbstract
This study is an investigation into the syntactic and structural aspects of complex clauses in six varied text types, namely literary texts, academically written texts, journalistic texts, conversations, technical texts, and poetic texts. Having a balanced number of sixty texts, the present study merges computational parsing with qualitative analysis of clausal function to determine the genre-dependent features of sentence complexity. Such quantitative-based measures as clausal density, sentence length, and readability indices have been tested statistically to show significant similarities and dissimilarities among text types. Furthermore, qualitative measures within a functional grammar approach have highlighted the rhetorical aspects of complex forms. The findings have demonstrated that complexity is more than a stylistic choice; indeed, it is genre-based communicative strategy affected by the expectations and cognitive requirements of readers. Implications for linguistic theory, pedagogy, and genre-sensitive text production have been taken into account.
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