Comment Clauses in Fiction

Abstract

This bachelor thesis deals with comment clauses in English fiction. The paper presents general description of adverbials with greater focus on disjuncts. Comment clauses, which are a subcategory of disjuncts, are the main focus of the paper. The attention is paid to their syntactic realizations, positions within a sentence, and pragmatic functions. The analysis then focuses on the most frequent comment clauses and their pragmatic functions in the discourse of fiction in order to examine the impact of their use on a reader.