The notion of the arts as “unnatural natural” communication (exemplified by the discourse of drama)

В статье предпринимается попытка применить ряд положений когнитивной поэтики, семиотики и лингвистики к традиционным вопросам филологического анализа литературно-художественного дискурса, взятого как пример художественной коммуникации. Обосновывая понятие «неестественной естественности» художественной коммуникации, автор обращается к инструменту, способному обеспечить иной уровень анализа художественного дискурса, включающего исходный и трансформированный тексты (пьесу и ее сценическую интерпретацию), когда изучение смыслоформирования в едином коммуникативном пространстве происходит с учетом параллелизма форм, значений и прагматических установок говорящих. The article attempts to apply a number of provisions of cognitive poetics, semiotics and linguistics to the traditional philological analysis of literary works. Justifying the concept of the arts as “unnatural natural” communication (including literary works, theatrical performances, screen adaptions, paintings, etc.), the author relies on the key assumptions expressed in the works by Yu. Lotman, U. Eco, R. Barthes, R. Jacobson, T. van Dijk, M. Freeman and other scholars: “the second (modeling) system”; “literary pragmatics”; “oriented toward the expressive, the emotive and the aesthetic”; etc. The heterogeneous discourse of drama is used to exemplify the theoretical assumptions and so helps to grasp the idea of the arts as “unnatural natural” communication. Moreover, the author of the article speaks of semiotic resonance as a tool that can help to deepen the analysis of the meaning construction in the discourse of drama. Being a multifaceted phenomenon, semiotic resonance provides new perspectives for the analysis of the discourse of drama, when the study of the aesthetic effect of the communicative space as a whole takes into account the parallelism of forms, meanings and pragmatic attitudes of the characters in the original communicative situation and further communicative situations.

An Analysis of the Linguistic Features of The Minister’s Black Veil from the Perspective of Literary Pragmatics

The Minister’s Black Veil is one of the most classic short stories written by American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), From the perspective of literary pragmatics, this paper analyzes the language features of the novel, such as words and sentences, grammar, semantic ambiguity, rhetoric and conversational implicature based on cooperative principle, so as to explore the superb writing style and literary art of the novel, better understand and appreciate this literary work, and provide a new perspective and reference for the study of British and American literature Direction.

Literary Pragmatics

The present study aims at presenting a thorough account of the field termed literary pragmatics which emerges in a consequence of applying the different pragmatic approaches to the study and analysis of literary genera. Additionally, it also attempts to explore and shed some light on the relationship between the two domains: pragmatics and literature in order to reveal their commonalities. There exists a strong assumption that these have something in common as they both have to do with language users and how meaning is conveyed. Despite the fact the various pragmatic approaches including speech act theory, conversational implicature, politeness theory and relevance theory are developed mainly in relation to spoken interactions, the study has revealed that they offer invaluable insights to the study of literary texts. Moreover, the process of analyzing literary texts has led to the development and the explanation of the pragmatic approaches themselves.

From Speech Acts to Literary Genres: Toward a Factual and Fictional Discourses Typology

In recent decades, speech act theorists began analyzing discourses in order to describe the logic that governs the use and understanding of language in the context of interlocutions. This paper is in the wake of those studies. It questions the fruitfulness of the notion of speech acts in literary pragmatics, analyzes some literary genres and proposes a discourse typology containing eight generic categories that reflect the possible links between factual and fictional discourses. In doing so, it offers a response to a question raised many years ago by a literary theorist that is directed to speech act theorists.

Voice Management In The Mawlid By Mirza Safvet-Beg Bašagić

Mawlid is a poetic literary work about the birth and life of the Muhammad, the Messenger of God. Mawlid by Mirza Safvet-beg Bašagić is one of the most signifi cant mawlids written in the Bosnian language. The text of the Mawlid is analyzed from the perspective of literary pragmatics. The paper takes into consideration the relationship between the author and narrator in the text and voice management in the Bašagić’s Mawlid.