Language Characteristic and Function of Verbal Non-Subject-Predicate Sentences in Contemporary Political Discourse Styles:A Case Study of XI Jinping:The Governance of China Ⅲ
A random sample of 300 non-subject-predicate sentences from XI Jinping:The Governance of Chi-na was used in analyzing the linguistic characteristics of non-subject-predicate sentences in the political dis-course genre and exploring their functions.It was found that the appearance of verbal non-subject-predicate sentences in the corpus is 100%,which effectively highlights the strong reasoning purpose and directive pur-pose of the political discourse.In addition,the use of non-subject-predicate sentences not only conforms to the concise and clear style of the political genre,but also conforms to the topic prominence of modern Chi-nese,and actively expresses the firm and confident position..
linguistic stylesverbal non-subject-predicate sentencestype of languagelinguistic functionsXI Jinping:The Governance of China Ⅲ