THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS OF FEATURE FILM TITLES’ REFLECTION IN SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS

Abstract

This article examines the potential of feature film titles’ reflection in syntactic constructions as well as the existing limitations thereof based on the selected corpus of film titles. Film titles or filmonyms expressed in the form of single clause, two- or multi-word syntactic constructions, phrases, simple sentences, and complex sentences are analyzed from the perspective of their structural composition. The study further investigates the common patterns and differences in the use of such syntactic structures in the English, Uzbek, and Russian languages. In addition, the degree of frequency of declarative, interrogative, negative, imperative, vocative simple sentences, and elliptical constructions across the languages with varying systems is identified through a comparative linguistic analysis. As a result, the functional-semantic, stylistic, pragmatic, and communicative effectiveness of syntactic structures in filmonyms is substantiated, while certain linguistic limitations existing in the languages are explained on the basis of linguacultural factors