The unification of the divided or the division of the united are two sides of a single whole. In human perception, the word "union" is most often associated with the plus sign, and "separation" with the minus sign. Why this happens is unknown. One thing is clear, that the stereotypes acquired during life or, on the contrary, laid down from childhood, prevent us from seeing a minus in a plus, and a plus in a minus. It limits. It prevents you from seeing the truth. This makes it impossible to touch the beauty. Today we will talk about such a linguistic phenomenon as parcellation in Russian, and we will see “with our own eyes” that division, breakdown, separation is also beautiful, interesting, talented and marvelous.
What is parceling?
The term "parcellation" is literally translated from Latin (parcellatio) as "separation" and from French (parcelle) as "particle". In linguistics, this is a stylistic device, which is a deliberate, deliberate division of a sentence into several separate parts: “The child is growing up. He lets go of his mother's hand. Takes a step. Your first step. Carefully. Not sure. First victory.";“I hear someone stifled sobs. Someone is crying. Barely audible. Crying and calling…” The given examples are a parcel construction, which consists of a base part and parcels. They are related in meaning. The sentence "The child is growing up", as well as "I hear someone's stifled sobs" are the basic or main elements of the construction, which are its semantic centers.
"Let go of mother's hand. Takes a step. Your first step. Carefully. Not sure. First victory"; “Someone is crying. Barely audible. Crying and calling……” – parcels – fragments, segments that appeared as a result of dismemberment. They are separated from the base part with the help of intonation, in writing - with a period, question or exclamation marks, less often - a semicolon or semicolon.
Parceling should not be confused with connecting constructions, which are members of complex sentences. They contain additional information or explanation, a remark that unites them with parcels, however, they are usually found in the middle or at the end of a sentence, separated by commas and accompanied by words such as, for example, even, thus, mainly, and so on: "I loved our conversations, long, deep, sincere, especially in the evenings."
Basic functions of parceling in text
With the question of what is parceling, or, to be more precise, what is parceling in Russian, we figured it out. However, a significant and important issue is the functioning of parcellation in speech andtext. In oral speech, it is used unconsciously. In a literary text, parcel constructions are an author's technique that carries the following functions:
- creating and highlighting a new rheme;
- pictorial function - emphasizing individual details, description, fixing the reader's attention at each stage of the action, stretching the action ("She stood up abruptly. She went to the table. She sat down. She thought. She quickly wrote the first line ".);
- characterological function - imitation of a person's internal monologue, his emotional state ("He ran, stumbling and falling. Just to be in time. Do not be late. Faster. Even faster ".);
- emotionally-excretory function (“You? Me? Something must? It can’t be!” – he said, shrugging his shoulders);
- expressive-grammatical function - changing the links between the members of the sentence.
In conclusion, I would like to note that one can talk a lot about what parcellation is, list its main functions, argue and find out the nature of its occurrence … This, no doubt, is interesting and informative, but this is just a theory. Dry. Fresh. Tasteless (she herself began to use parcels). And I want something bright and “appetizing”. Therefore, I would like to end the topic “What is parcelling” with the most striking example and often quoted poem by Alexander Blok: “Night, street, lamp, pharmacy. A meaningless and dim light. Live at least a quarter of a century, Everything will be so. There is no way out”.