Pragmatické motivace v psané podobě češtiny

• Authors: Milada Hirschová

Title variants

EN

On the pragmatic motivation in written Czech

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article shows that certain phenomena regulated by the rules of Czech orthography, namely by rules regulating the use of capital letters and quotation marks, are in fact pragmatic. The usage of capital letters points to cases of individual reference (proper names as a means of identification) or it reflects a honorific function (including occasional overlapping with the aforementioned function). The use of quotation marks is shown as an instrument of the author’s communicative strategy involving particular conversational implicatures (pragmatic intrusion - irony, reinterpretation, semantic shifts). It reflects stronger authorial commitment to implicature than analogical strategies occuring in spoken communication.

Keywords

CS

vlastní jména; čeština; komunikační strategie; konverzační maximy; honorifika; individuální reference; partikulární konverzační implikatura; reinterpretace

EN

proper names; Czech language; communicative strategies; conversational maxims; honorifics; individual reference; particular conversational implicature; reinterpretation

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 94
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 169-180
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Milada Hirschová

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic