Among the grammatical forms of cohesion, we distinguished connectors and
connecting words, deictic means (pronouns, conjunctions, and so on), participial
phrase. The connectors of the coordinating and subordinating relation actualize the
logical cohesion of the author`s digression. Among all the conjunctions, the most
frequently used are: but, and, for, after all.
Thus, for example, in following fragment from the novel by Maugham “The
Moon and Sixpence”, the cohesion of author`s digression is done with the grammatical
markers, namely, conjunctive element after all:
I do not know how they got on or what they talked about. After all, there are
twenty – four hours in the day, and the summits of emotion can only be reached at rare
intervals. I can only imagine how they passed the rest time. While the light lasted and
so long as Blanche's strength endured, I suppose that Strickland painted, and it must
have irritated her when she saw him absorbed in his work [18].
The addresser tries to explain what “the feeling reaches its top only in rare
moments, and the day has only twenty-four hours”, and so the author “can only imagine
what they (the lovers) did all the rest of the time.” Thus, the addresser defines the
essence of the events that occur.
The author`s digression and the main text may be binded and opposed with the
conjunction but. As an example, in the novel by G. Greene “The Quiet American”:
But if one writes about war, self-respect demands that occasionally one share the
risks [20].
The sentence that is introduced with the conjunction but is author`s digression; it
is convergent due to the syntactic-stylistic type. The conjunction but performs its
counter function: forms a single unit, and at the semantic level represents different
semantic segments.
In the text of the novel by Maugham “The Moon and Sixpence” we selected the
author`s digression, which is included in a sentence with a conjunction for:
No one went near the plantation, for, as you know, the natives have a very lively
horror of the disease, and in the old days when it was discovered the sufferer was
killed; but sometimes, when the village boys were scrambling about the hills, they
would catch sight of the white man, with his great red beard, wandering about [18].
In this example, the addresser intention is to expand the knowledge of the
addressee about the horrible disease: leprosy, to supplement information, to show the
reaction of the surrounding people to the sick person.
As revealed by the study, the author`s digression may not be preceded by a
conjunction or a conjunction word but the conjunction element is used in the text of
the story, where the author`s digression is included. This can be seen in the example of
the author`s digression from the novel by G. Greene “The Quiet American”:
A dollar love, of course, would include marriage, and Junior and Mother's Day,
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