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Синтактико-семантические особенности русских и словацких языковых афоризмов

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Gallo J.

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia

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2020

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vol. 45

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issue 2

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The article compares/contrasts the syntactic and semantic features of language aphorisms in Russian and Slovak. The Russian and Slovak language aphorisms have a priori axiological modality and are capable of referemental use, as potential acts of motivation and acts of affirmation. The expediency of this analysis is due to the fact that the illocutionary force has national and cultural specifics, which is manifested at all levels of language, speech and discourse. The object of the article is Russian and Slovak proverbs, sayings and winged expressions, in which the value bases of interpersonal speech communication are focused. A group of examples of the greatest illocutionary force is given, i.e. speech acts of prompting, then affirmative speech acts, as well as speech acts of inducement and affirmations that acquire additional illocutionary power. The taxonomy of the illocutionary force contained in Russian and Slovak folk aphorisms takes the following outlines: a) the most illocutionary power is speech acts of motivation, in which proverbs are used; b) affirmative speech and behavioral acts, which are evaluative aphorisms, have the status of passing thoughts with a light touch of lax edification, warning, or wish, and therefore, their illocutionary force is less pronounced; c) speech acts of inducement and affirmation acquire additional illocutionary force if the proverbs used in them retain the connotation of an authoritative original source. In the last part of the text, conclusions of the presented issue are drawn.

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'DAS LEBEN (DES MC) IST KRIEG':EINBETTUNGEN EINER KONZEPTUELLEN METAPHER DES TEXTGENRES ‘RAP’ IN ZWEI DIVERGIERENDE KULTURELLE KONTEXTE

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Schröder U.

Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies

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2010

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vol. 2

219-256

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This paper focuses on the differences in the use of the conceptual metaphor (RAPPER’S) LIFE IS WAR in German and Brazilian rap lyrics based on the analysis of 150 German and 150 Brazilian rap lyrics. The results reveal crucial differences concerning the mapping of the adversary in both corpora. We will also show that the differences point to divergent discourse contexts, speech act types and speech functions in which each cultural rap style is embedded.

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Kоммуникативные партии персонажей и заботы нарратора в семиотике художественной прозы

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Мечковская Н., Казанкова Е.

Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski

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2010

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vol. 1

447-475

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Communicative party of literature character is created in direct speech by succession (chain) of speech acts differentiated by their illocutionary forces – such as intention to inform, to impel to do something, to express feelings and so on. Paradigmatic and syntagmatic investigations of communicative parties (relations between the direct speech and the author’s speech; communicative and logical completeness or incompleteness of dialogs and polylogs; the variety of speech acts, their quantitative hierarchy in communicative parties of different literature characters and so on) gives good opportunities to understand as well literature characters as well the reflection speech communication in fiction communication (that is also impotent for the general ontology of speech act in reality).

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Dialoge als Sequenzen von Sprechakten unter besonderer Beachtung der illokutiven Partikeln

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Laskowski M.

Germanica Wratislaviensia

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2014

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vol. 139

213 - 227

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Present-day German is notorious for its extensive use of particles of all kinds. This paper discusses a very important linguistic problem of dialogues as sequences of speech acts with special consideration of the illocutive particles. The article deals with speech particles that can be used by the Speaker to govern the Hearer’s understanding of the speech. The aim of the paper is to join in the discussion about the role of particles in the speech acts and their direct correlation in the dialogues.

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Why Can a Japanese Unagi-Sentence Be Used in a Request?

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Hirotoshi Y.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2009

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vol. 5

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issue 2

227-240

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The objective of this paper is to reveal why the so-called Unagi-sentence in Japanese can be widely used in the context of request within the framework of cognitive linguistics and cognitive pragmatics. The Unagi-sentence, which is known as a representative sentence of the Japanese language, has been analyzed for years in various manners from various viewpoints. For instance, the sentence "Boku-wa Unagi-da" when literally translated into English reads I am an eel. One of the most influential reasons for this sentence being regarded as characteristic to Japanese seems to be the clear difference in the sense in that the literally translated version in English means the identification between I and an eel, whereas the Unagi-sentence in Japanese indicates who orders the eel dish or sometimes requests the waiter to put a proper dish in a proper place. This thesis discusses the schematic meaning of the "X-wa Y-da" pattern in Japanese; further, it discusses the tendency for the Japanese language, unlike English, to depend more heavily on contextual information when the construed mental images are encoded. Through the discussion, I will reveal that the study of the Unagi-sentence from the viewpoint of cognitive linguistics sheds a new light on the contrastive studies in the field of pragmatics.

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‘I Bet They Are Going to Read It’: Reported Direct Speech in Titles of Research Papers in Linguistic Pragmatics

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Pułaczewska H.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2009

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vol. 5

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issue 2

271-291

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Titles of research articles in the humanities, including linguistics, tend to be more creative and less informative than corresponding titles in exact sciences or medicine. In linguistics, pragmatic studies are an area where reported discourse, i.e. direct speech in the form of a full speech act, occurs relatively frequently in titles of research papers. This paper analyses the metonymic and cataphoric relations between such titles and article texts on the background of the functions of text titles. It also presents the results of a survey conducted among graduate students and aimed at finding out whether titles containing reported discourse in the form of speech acts are easier to memorize and attract more attention among the articles' potential readers.

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Rada jako narzędzie perswazji w projekcie dydaktycznym O wychowaniu dzieci uchodźców Juliusza Jedlińskiego

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Pałucka-Czerniak I.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza

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2015

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vol. 22

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issue 2

129-142

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The article presents the use of a simple genre of advice in a teaching project from the nineteenth century. The publication which is the subject of the analysis is by Julius Jedliński, and refers to the Polish national school called L’École polonaise des Batignolles in Paris. This document certifies that emigres discussed the value of the Polish language as a determinant of Polish identity. Effective ways of teaching the children of immigrants Polish language and culture were sought. The author of the publication presented the concept of changes in the school curriculum. As a means of persuasion he primarily used advice. The reception of the proposal by Jedliński was not favourable. The analysis of responses reveals transformations in the basic block of communicative intentions of the advice, which is interpreted as an order, complaint, or even a threat. On this basis, the attention is drawn to the importance of the communicative context in the interpretation of advice. As a result of the public nature of an act of speech and the extension of the audience while maintaining the desired recipient, the decisiveness of any advice is increased and a modification of a simple genre takes place.

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Wilt Thou Be Lord of all the World? Modals and Persuasion in Shakespeare

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Nakayasu M.

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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2014

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vol. 49

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issue 1

5-30

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Persuasion is defined as human communication designed to influence the judgements and actions of others (Simons & Jones 2011). The purpose of this research is to analyse the discourse of persuasion in Shakespeare from the perspective of historical pragmatics (Jucker & Taavitsainen 2010), with particular attention to modals employed as part of the strategies. The modals under investigation are proximal and distal central modals, SHALL/SHOULD, WILL/WOULD, CAN/COULD, MAY/MIGHT, MUST, and the contracted form ’LL. The data for the present study is drawn from The Riverside Shakespeare (Evans 1997) and the concordance by Spevack (1968-1980). The corpus includes both cases where the persuasion attempt is successful and unsuccessful. After defining persuasion in comparison to speech acts, quantitative analysis reveals how frequently the persuader and the persuadee employ a modal regarding each type of modality and speech act. Further analysis shows in what manner the persuader and the persuadee interact with each other in discourse resorting to the following strategies: modality, proximal and distal meanings of the modal, speech act of each utterance including a modal, and use of the same modal or switching modals in interaction. This research thus clarifies how effectively speakers attempted to persuade others in interactions, shedding light on communication mechanisms in the past.

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Elementi pučke pragmatike u bosanskim poslovicama

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Bulić H.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2023

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issue 24

235-251

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This paper discusses the views on pragmatic subjects explicitly mentioned or implied in Bosnian folk proverbs. For the purposes of the research, three collections of proverbs were analyzed: Narodno blago by M. K. Ljubušak (1887), Na nebu paučina by V. Gunić (1999) and Krajiške izreke i poslovice by A. Sijamhodžić (2017). In these collections many proverbs that deal with pragmatic subjects are recorded. Such proverbs are cited and commented upon in the central part of the paper. They mostly refer to the effects of language use, language as a sign of personality or identity, appropriateness, indirectness, politeness, speech acts (primarily promises, advice and compliments) and co-operation (Grice’s Cooperative Principle, its maxims, and hedges).

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Czary nad kołyską. Magia słowa w kołysance ludowej i lirycznym wierszu kołysankowym

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Stefaniak-Maślanka B.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2012

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issue 3

159-171

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The article focuses on some examples of magic in traditional folk lullabies and lyrical lullabies for children. The aforementioned types of genre should invoke child’s sleep by using special words or melody. On the other hand, traditional lullabies were used to protect children or bring them health and happiness. To accomplish this, the singer often called some „higher being” for help. In the article that kind of speech acts are considered as magical behavior. The second part of the text discusses use of language, character of content and some special procedures in lyrical lullabies, that can be called „magical”. This kind of magic is, however, created by lullaby authors, who practice it as an intentional method to „do things with words”.

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Imperativeness in between Grammatical Givens and Communicative Politeness

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Palašić N., Zbašnik T.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2017

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issue 13

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The paper focuses on the relation between imperatives and imperativeness, that is, between the imperative as a grammatical mood with a defined form and its assigned function, on the one hand, and imperativeness as a communicative value that can manifest itself through different morphosyntactic forms, on the other. In this sense, the function of imperatives is analysed in the context of the theory of speech acts. The analysis reveals that different imperative forms can be classified as different types of speech acts based on their various communicative roles. The theory of politeness dictates that directness, which is a basic feature of imperatives, should be avoided in polite communication. This is why we also focus on other morphosyntactic forms whose form indicates a reduced level of directness, but whose content still has the characteristics of imperatives.

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Akademickie akty immatrykulacji i inauguracji ze stanowiska komunikologii ogólnej

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Grucza F.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2016

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vol. 5

191-226

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The main goal of the essay is to discuss and elaborate on the communicative aspects of academic matriculation and inauguration ceremonies that take place at Polish universities. The word inauguration (lat. inauguratio) implies a ceremonial induction into something. Still, in Polish, it is very commonly used with an adjective ‘solemn’ or ‘ceremonious’ to mark the character of the official and ceremonial first day of the academic year. What is more, the ceremony is almost always organized in accordance with a commonly accepted prototypical program which divides the ceremony into two parts: the primary – traditional part and the additional – supplementary part. The careful analysis of the ceremony from the perspective of communication studies and communicology can shed a new light on the interpretation of the importance of such events. According to various representatives and supporters of the theory of speech acts, the ceremonies can be described as specific acts of communication that can be considered as perlocution acts. The author of the essay tries to elaborate on the understanding of the ceremonies from a broader sociological, communicological perspective.

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Zdravý rozum u Berkeleyho a Austina podle Marka Tomečka

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Mihálik J.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2018

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vol. 66

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issue 1

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In this review study I investigate an interpretation of Berkeley’s concept of common sense which has been recently advanced by Marek Tomeček. In his view, Berkeley understands common sense as a collection of beliefs held by the common man. Common sense, however, has to remain implicit, and is thus an ineffable standard by which philosophical systems can be assessed. The missing argument for the implicitness of common sense is found by Tomeček in Austin. I make a case for the view that the interpretation presented would be more convincing if its author informed us why we should reject the interpretation of Petr Glombíček, according to which Berkeley understood common sense in traditional terms as rationality. Moreover, the argument for the implicitness of common sense, which Tomeček finds in Austin, is not convincing, as I attempt to show, because it is not clear why a speech act that is unsuccessful from the illocutionary point of view may not yet express a meaningful proposition.

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Speech acts and the autonomy of linguistic pragmatics

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Witczak-Plisiecka I.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2009

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vol. 5

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issue 1

85-106

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This paper comments on selected problems of the definition of linguistic pragmatics with a focus on notions associated with speech act theory in the tradition of John Langshaw Austin. In more detail it concentrates on the (ir)relevance of the use of the Austinian categorisation into locution, illocution, and perlocution in locating a divide in between pragmatics and semantics, and especially the distinction between the locutionary act and the illocutionary act and its implications for the definition of pragmatics and its separation from the semantic theory.The relation between form and meaning is further briefly reviewed against dichotomies including the Gricean and neo-Gricean ‘what is said’ versus ‘what is implicated’ or meant, between what can be ‘locuted’, but not said, and what can be said, but not asserted. These dichotomies are related to the theoretical commitments as to the accepted operative forces in speech acts, primarily convention and intention. It is suggested that, roughly, the development of the speech act theory can be viewed as a process by which the theory moves away from its originally sociolinguistic orientation towards a more psychologistic account, which in turn leads towards diminishing the role of (traditional) semantics and the subsequent juxtaposition of pragmatics and syntax rather than pragmatics and semantics.

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Pragmatic Ambiguity: The Thetic Function of Modality

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Conte A., Di Lucia P.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2009

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vol. 5

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issue 2

191-199

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The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the pragmatic aspects of ambiguity present in deontic sentences, which may have three pragmatic functions: a prescriptive or a descriptive or a constitutive function. This type of ambiguity is investigated on the lexical, phrasal, and sentential level. The discussion focuses on the deontic constructions of the German verb sollen and the English shall as they are used in legal texts. It also includes comments on the thetic function of the Latin imperative mood and the subjunctive mood.

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Internalism and Externalism in Speech Act Theory

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Harnish R.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2009

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vol. 5

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issue 1

9-31

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Internalism (Frege; Searle) and externalism (Putnam 1975; Burge 1979) are related doctrines in the philosophy of language and mind, mostly centered on the role of reference in the individuation of propositions. This debate has recently been extended in speech act theory from content to force. But here the landscape becomes more complicated. It has been recently argued that speech act theory got off the track after Austin by internalizing Austin's "felicity" conditions. In reply it is noted that the issue of internalism and externalism is more nuanced-there are internal and external elements in many theories, and a preliminary categorization is attempted here. Furthermore, internalism also has its virtues, which are largely overlooked, and we attempt to redress that imbalance.

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How to do things with jokes: Speech acts in standup comedy

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Aarons D., Mierowsky M.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2017

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vol. 5

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issue 4

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How to do things with jokes: Speech acts in standup comedyIn How to Do Things with Words (1962), the philosopher John Austin claimed that we use words to do things in the world, not merely to express a state of affairs. This proposal introduced speech acts, and essentially initiated the study of linguistic pragmatics. Speech acts in everyday communication include persuading, apologizing, criticizing, humiliating, complimenting and a host of other intended behaviours. Austin accentuated the idea of speaker intention, on one hand, and hearer’s response to that intention if successfully conveyed, on the other. We consider some of the speech acts used in the work of selected standup comedians to analyse the way they determine the relationship of performer and audience. We argue that there is a reciprocal relationship between the licensing of certain speech acts in standup comedy, and the success of these speech acts in shaping the social lives of the audience. We show that this relationship is at the forefront of standup comedy’s social impact and that it can generate heightened consciousness of the social and political environment of the time. Finally, we consider the question of whether socially critical standup can have any noticeable effect on the attitudes or behaviour of both live and digitally mediated audiences.

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Прагматика второго лица

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Kiklewicz A.

Acta Neophilologica

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2020

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vol. XXII/1

5-30

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The author considers the correlation between grammar and pragmatics as a problem of functional linguistics. The discussion focuses on pragmatic restrictions concerning the use of grammatical forms, i.e., the extent to which the grammatical meaning corresponds to the characteristics of speech acts. In this respect, the author analyzes Russian imperfective verbs in the second person of indicative. The analysis of the material collected from the Internet corpus of the Russian language demonstrates that the verbs in the 2nd person form are rarely used to implement the representative (assertive) speech acts. However, the use of verbs of the 2nd person in the general-personal, indefinite-personal and in the meaning of the 1st person is very common. The author concludes that the pragmatic-cultural factor is decisive in limiting the use of the verbs in the 2nd person form.

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Normotwórcze akty mowy w laudach sejmikowych doby średniopolskiej na przykładzie deklaratywów

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Dawidziak-Kładoczna M.

Poradnik Językowy

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2023

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vol. 806

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issue 7

31-44

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Resolutions adopted by regional councils in the Middle Polish age are highly valuable to a historian of the Polish language, since they are testimonies to the early Polish official style. The research leads to the conclusion that the repertoire of performative verbs used for verbalising norms was fairly extensive and contained both native words, mainly prefixal verbs (e.g. odkładać, odsyłać, naznaczać, postanowić, ustanowić, umacniać, uwalniać), and genetically Latin lexis (e.g. aprobować, akceptować, deklarować, deputować, libertować, prefigować). All declaratives in the resolutions are realised by means of indicative sentences with the predicate in the 1st person plural, less frequently in the 3rd person singular. The intentions discussed above are only occasionally expressed using impersonal forms, which prevail in the contemporary official texts.

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Lauda uchwalane przez sejmiki ziemskie w dobie średniopolskiej mają dużą wartość dla historyka języka polskiego, ponieważ są świadectwem początków stylu urzędowego w polszczyźnie. Badania doprowadzają do wniosku, że repertuar czasowników performatywnych wykorzystywanych do werbalizowania norm był dość duży i zawierał zarówno wyrazy pochodzenia rodzimego, głównie czasowniki prefiksalne (np. odkładać, odsyłać, naznaczać, postanowić, ustanowić, umacniać, uwalniać), jak również leksykę genetycznie łacińska (np. aprobować, akceptować, deklarować, deputować, libertować, prefigować). Wszystkie deklaratywy w laudach są realizowane za pomocą zdań oznajmujących z orzeczeniem w 1. os. l. mn., rzadziej w 3. os. l. poj. Omówione wyżej intencje sporadycznie natomiast są wyrażane formami bezosobowymi, które dominują we współczesnych tekstach urzędowych.

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Pragmatic aspects of street protests discourse (on the example of protests in Belarus in 2020)

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Kiklewicz A.

Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski

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2022

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vol. 2

297-315

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The author analyzes the pragmatic properties of protest discourse, taking into account poster slogans used during mass anti-government protests in Belarus in 2020. The theoretical basis of the research is the concept of discourse, based on four categories: intention, representation, performance and context. The author distinguishes among three types of contexts: cognitive, social and event-related (functional). In accordance with the global function of the protest discourse, three types of constitutive language activities are distinguished: modal-evaluative, modal-disapproving and speech acts of ultimatum. The author analyzes these types of speech acts in detail and provides numerous linguistic examples.

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Синтактико-семантические особенности русских и словацких языковых афоризмов

'DAS LEBEN (DES MC) IST KRIEG':EINBETTUNGEN EINER KONZEPTUELLEN METAPHER DES TEXTGENRES ‘RAP’ IN ZWEI DIVERGIERENDE KULTURELLE KONTEXTE

Kоммуникативные партии персонажей и заботы нарратора в семиотике художественной прозы

Dialoge als Sequenzen von Sprechakten unter besonderer Beachtung der illokutiven Partikeln

Why Can a Japanese Unagi-Sentence Be Used in a Request?

‘I Bet They Are Going to Read It’: Reported Direct Speech in Titles of Research Papers in Linguistic Pragmatics

Rada jako narzędzie perswazji w projekcie dydaktycznym O wychowaniu dzieci uchodźców Juliusza Jedlińskiego

Wilt Thou Be Lord of all the World? Modals and Persuasion in Shakespeare

Elementi pučke pragmatike u bosanskim poslovicama

Czary nad kołyską. Magia słowa w kołysance ludowej i lirycznym wierszu kołysankowym

Imperativeness in between Grammatical Givens and Communicative Politeness

Akademickie akty immatrykulacji i inauguracji ze stanowiska komunikologii ogólnej

Zdravý rozum u Berkeleyho a Austina podle Marka Tomečka

Speech acts and the autonomy of linguistic pragmatics

Pragmatic Ambiguity: The Thetic Function of Modality

Internalism and Externalism in Speech Act Theory

How to do things with jokes: Speech acts in standup comedy

Прагматика второго лица

Normotwórcze akty mowy w laudach sejmikowych doby średniopolskiej na przykładzie deklaratywów

Pragmatic aspects of street protests discourse (on the example of protests in Belarus in 2020)