SYNERGETIC PROPERTIES OF LANGUAGE UNITS

Abstract

The article highlights the concept of synergy in relation to speech / discourse from the point of view of functional linguistics. The term "synergism" refers to the ability of self-organizing open systems (including language and speech) to combine elements in such a way that their total effect exceeds the pure linear addition of components. This nonlinearity is inherent in speech, since the general meaning of the text is usually not equal to the mechanically obtained sum of the semantics of its units.