THE CONCEPT OF A PROSE STANZA AND ITS PECULIARITIES

Abstract

The article describes a prose stanza as a group of sentences that are closely interconnected in meaning and syntactically, expressing a more complete development of thought compared to a separate sentence; one of the basic units of speech. In the linguistic literature, other terms are also used to refer to this unit, more often than others - “complex syntactic whole”, as well as “super-phrasal unity”, “paragraph”, “component”. However, the term "complex syntactic whole" emphasizes the syntactic nature of this unit, leaving aside its semantic unity. In addition, the term "complex whole" is used by some scholars to designate a complex sentence.