scholarly journals Principal stages of speech pragmasemantic sense formation and methods of its analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
V. L. Malakhova
Keyword(s):  
Functional Space ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Communicative Intention ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Mechanisms Of Formation ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Degree Of Participation ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

The article is devoted to peculiarities and differences of two linguistic fields semantics and pragmatics. The objective of the work is to state the extent of participation of semantic and pragmatic parameters in the process of sense formation. The relevance of the study is beyond doubt, since the pragmasemantic analysis of discourse functional space helps to identify the potential of linguistic means in the process of forming meanings and their transformation into integral sense under the influence of contextual factors, and to determine optimal ways of expressing communicative intention of the author of the discourse and of providing adequate understanding of the sense by the referent. The author also describes main features, differences and similarities of the concepts text and discourse. The specificity of semantic and pragmatic meanings, their correlation and the degree of participation in formation of discourse functional space are analyzed. On the basis of this, the algorithm for pragmasemantic sense formation is deduced. The author emphasizes that the initial meaning is formed by a semantic meaning, in the process of speech actualizing it is supplemented with a pragmatic meaning, which is further transformed into a pragmatic and semantic and communicative-pragmatic sense. This process is illustrated by fragments from works of fiction by contemporary English-speaking authors. The research uses semantic and pragmatic analysis and discourse analysis as the principal methods. The author describes their features, and proves the viability of their application to the object of the research. The author comes to the conclusion that the pragmasemantic analysis of English discourse makes it possible to understand the mechanisms of formation of meanings and sense of a speech work. The contribution of both semantics and pragmatics to the overall communicative interaction is undeniable, since any communication is necessarily analyzed taking into account semantic and pragmatic aspects.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Speech and Language IEP Conferences

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Koester Turnbull ◽  
Diana L. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Telephone Questionnaire ◽  
Parent Program

The nature of the speech and language IEP conference and parent and clinician opinions of the conferences were investigated. Conferences had a mean length of 24 min and a mean of 3.6 participants. Eight tape recordings of conferences were coded by communication units (CUs) to determine speaker, topic, and pragmatic intent. The topic discussed most frequently was Performance of the Child and least often was Parent Program Responsibilities. The majority of the CUs were statements made by clinicians. Thus, the communicative interaction was predominantly one-way, with the clinician giving information to relatively passive parents and classroom teachers. Telephone questionnaire results indicated positive opinions, especially by parents. No significant differences were found between parents' and clinicians' answers, except on one question that addressed perceptions of the parents' role in remediation programs.

scholarly journals “Taking it for granted”: The utilization of pragmatic aspects in entertainment news reporting on Instagram

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 508-516
Author(s):  
Alya Khalisah ◽  
Harwintha Yuhria Anjarningsih
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
News Content ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects ◽  
Time Information

Instagram has been one of the main platforms for real-time information seeking for the last five years (Schroeder, 2018). The kind of information that people look for includes entertainment news. The present study aims to examine the way an entertainment news account presents its news content using different pragmatic techniques and how these techniques affect its brand image because minor attention has been paid to purpose-oriented accounts. To fulfill the aim, there are two research problems that are addressed: (1) what are the most common pragmatic techniques used in the captions? And (2) what significance does each technique have in presenting the news and shaping the brand image? Therefore, 36 sample captions from E! News Instagram account, as the most followed entertainment news account on Instagram, were taken, observed, and analyzed using a framework developed by Al-Hindawi and Mehdi (2017) in their article about a pragmatic analysis on American and British website-based entertainment news that focuses on three pragmatic pillars, namely presupposition, Grice’s conversational maxims, and allusion. The study found that in the case of E! News, presupposition, violation to Grice’s conversational maxims, and allusion are not merely used to keep the content interesting, but they respectively hold important roles in shaping the content of the news, engaging audience’s interest, and creating a good brand image.

The Pragmatics of Evidence Discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Giovanni Tuzet
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Judicial Control ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Basic Distinction ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

This chapter explores a number of pragmatic aspects of the evidentiary discourse. By calling them “pragmatic” the author refers to the aspects that are typically the province of “pragmatics” and can be generically defined as the study of the use of language in context; and by “evidence discourse” he refers to the discourse that is carried out about juridical evidence. This discussion restates the basic distinction between semantics and pragmatics and then addresses the nature of the speech acts in evidence discourse, the role of implicatures and presuppositions, and the place of deixis, i.e., the use of indexicals and demonstratives. The author claims that evidence discourse is predominantly assertive; that problems associated with implicatures are abated as questioners are skilled and questions are specific; that exploitation of presuppositions is avoided by attorneys’ vigilance and judicial control; and, finally, that deixis reveals the discourse’s ostensive dimension.

scholarly journals Unarticulated constituents and neo-Gricean pragmatics

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Conversational Implicature ◽  
Pragmatic Theory ◽  
Pragmatic Enrichment ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Gricean Pragmatics ◽  
Unarticulated Constituents

Abstract In recent years, the concept of unarticulated constitutes has generated a fierce debate both in the philosophy of language and in linguistic semantics and pragmatics. By unarticulated constituent is meant a propositional (or conceptual) constituent of a sentence that is communicated by the speaker in uttering that sentence, but is not linguistically represented in that uttered sentence. The main aim of this article is to provide a neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis of unarticulated constituents, showing that the current existing mechanism of neo-Gricean pragmatic theory can handle unarticulated constituents in a straightforward and elegant way. Second, I defend the neo-Gricean position that the pragmatic enrichment of unarticulated constituents is nothing but a neo-Gricean, pre-semantic conversational implicature. And third and finally, I briefly evaluate an alternative, formal syntactico-semantic analysis of unarticulated constituents.

Between historical semantics and pragmatics

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasi Ihalainen
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Historical Semantics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Long Term Trends

This paper discusses the methodology of conceptual history, a branch of the study of the history of political thought which focuses on the changing meanings of political concepts over the course of time. It is suggested here that methodological disputes among historians of political thought frequently arise out of differing theories of language and meaning and that historians should be more open-minded to the idea of combining various research strategies in their work. Conceptual history, for instance, can be viewed as the combination of historical versions of semantics and pragmatics. While the study of the macro-level semantic changes in the language of politics can reveal interesting long-term trends and innovative uses of language, a contextual analysis of speech acts is also needed when the rhetorical aspects of conceptual change are traced. This interaction of semantic and pragmatic analysis in conceptual history is illustrated by examples originating from eighteenth-century political preaching.

A pragmatic analysis of L2 Spanish requests: Acquisition in three situational contexts during short-term study abroad

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Czerwionka ◽  
Alejandro Cuza
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Pragmatic Development ◽  
Familial Data ◽  
Situational Contexts ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Food And Drink

AbstractThis study examines pragmatic acquisition of requests for English-speaking learners of Spanish. This research expands upon previous work by investigating the acquisition of second language requests during a short-term immersion program (6 weeks) in Madrid, Spain and in three situational contexts: food and drink, general merchandise, and familial. Data were collected using an experimental computerized oral discourse completion task. Requests made by learners (501 requests) and native speakers (224 requests) were compared considering personal deictic orientation and directness of the requests. For learners, shifts from speaker-oriented to hearer-oriented requests indicated greater pragmatic development in food and drink and familial contexts. Results are discussed considering pragmatic developmental stages and differential results in the three contexts.

scholarly journals Fake discourse in the space of mass media and media linguistic practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 11033
Author(s):  
Vita Maiba
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Text Structures ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
The Media ◽  
Linguistic Practices

The purpose of this study is determined by the importance and necessity of using and active disseminating false, fake reality in the space of media discourse and media linguistic practices to exert a manipulative influence on the audience. The paper shows that as a result of the media-linguistic practices analysis in the space of fake media reality there are opportunities to describe the variety of fake materials, as well as to detect a number of threats that demonstrate the facts of the destructive impact of fake discourse in the space of mass media in relation to consciousness and linguistic practices. The paper uses such methods and techniques for studying the structure of discourse and its strategies as content analysis; pragmatic analysis of speech and communicative acts; rhetorical and stylistic, genre, and other specifics of text structures (news, parliamentary debates, lectures, advertising texts, etc.) "within the framework of linguistic practices of communicative interaction.

scholarly journals LINGUISTIC TEXTBOOK OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN THE SYSTEN OF TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
O.V BONDAREVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Language Transfer ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The Russian Language

The article deals with the issue of linguistic-oriented teaching of Russian as a foreign language. The features of the methodological concept of the national-linguistic orientation of language teaching are described, the advantages of this approach to teaching are formulated. As an illustrative example, a description of a textbook on the Russian language for English-speaking students is given. Some illustrative fragments of the textbook and ways of presenting language material are presented. Analyzed the scientific works of modern methodologists on this topic. Revealed the urgency of the problem, which is associated with the need to create educational materials of a linguistic nature for a different contingent of students, studying the interaction of languages in the minds of students, ways of representing linguistic phenomena, taking into account the general and specific features of contacting language systems, difficulties in teaching Russian due to the originality of the native language, transfer current rules, programs of speech behavior from the native language into the studied (Russian) language. A linguistic textbook on the Russian language must certainly take into account the peculiarities of the studied language through the prism of the native language and consciously rely on it, but not by comparing the systems of two languages, but by including educational comments, increased attention to a particular language fact that causes special difficulties, and the choice of semantization techniques lexical units, the sequence of studying the material and certain ways of presenting the material. Taking into account the above factors contributes to a quick and adequate understanding of the facts of the studied language, a solid assimilation of the material.

scholarly journals GOD AND DEVIL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH (THE CASE OF MIKHAIL BULGAKOV’S THE MASTER AND MARGARITA AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-201
Author(s):  
L.V. Polubichenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Language ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Master And Margarita ◽  
Creative Vision ◽  
Master And Margarita

The article studies the specific semantics and pragmatics of the Russian words bog (god) and chert (devil) in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita against the background of their popular use reflected in dictionaries of the Russian literary language; the etymology of the words as well as their various connotations and associations are also considered. Having put the translation strategies of foreignization and domestication to the test, the research reveals that none of them is adequate to convey Bulgakov’s creative vision to English-speaking audiences

scholarly journals Pragmatics of Communicative Tonality in the Stylistics of English Educative Converse

2019 ◽  
pp. 146-158
Author(s):  
Elena Ilyinova ◽  
Tamara Tsinkerman
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Discourse Type ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Adult Status ◽  
Parent Child

The article is devoted to the study of communicative tonality that is considered a dynamic linguistic-and-pragmatic characteristic of the communication style, which is actualized by the choice of language means and speech techniques, correlated with the strata-tactical and genre-stylistic features of a particular kind of discourse. The corpus of educative parent-child dialogue examples allowed to identify the main goal of this discourse type, that is the child's socialization in the course of communication based on adult status dominance, to determine four styles of educative communication that differ in patterns of functional and syntactic speech models and in language means which are a part of the communicative competence of English-speaking culture. The linguistic-and-pragmatic analysis of adults' speech utterances revealed the specificity of stratagem-tactical intentions in choosing each style of educative communication, made it possible to designate the character of illocution, aimed at explicating the intent to socialize a child through explaining, persuading, reasoning, suggesting, compelling and criticizing behavior. The analysis of pragmatic markers of the communication tonality revealed its hybrid and modulated character, that is shown in a meaningful choice of functional-syntactic models of speech, in direct or indirect forms of empathy types - from democratic, consolidating to moralizing and adversarial. According to the study, the tonality of educative communication varies from strong and soft shades of benevolent, trustful, playful, serious, and indulgent to instructive, mentor, contemptuous, ironically mocking tones, which can be expressed in different combinations of lexical, stylistic and functional-pragmatic means of English.

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