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Egocentricals are lexemes, grammatical categories (particularly the grammatical renditions of aspect, verbal gender, tense and mood) and syntactic structures, the semantics of which anticipates the implied speaker as a participant in the situation being described. The aim of this study is to define the lexical egocentricals in Slovak and outline the semantic-pragmatic roles of the speaker roles in the narrative statements. We distinguish between the semantic (receptor) and communicative (speaker) role, i.e. perspective and focalization, as an essential starting point for understanding egocentricals. We also distinguish between the canonical and non-canonical communication situation, i.e. primary and secondary egocentricals. We present a set of nine semantic-pragmatic roles, in which the egocentricals act from the pragmatic perspective as modifiers of statements and contribute to the implementation of the communication intentions of the speaker.
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The ambition of this study is to present the particle also in the contexts that determine its validity in speech/text in communication and pragmatic contexts. The assessment is based on the presumption of the intentionality and purposeful nature of the speaker’s verbal action and the concept of fact. In this paper, we focus on (a) the functional characteristics of the particle also (as a presupposition trigger and updater); (b) the reconstruction of sentence meaning through the commutability of the particle also by metalinguistic expressions (explanatory operators, such as ʻtakistoʼ (as well), ʻajʼ (too), ʻaniʼ (neither), ʻnavyšeʼ (moreover) / ʻzároveňʼ (at the same time) / ʻpopritomʼ (along with) / ʻokrem tohoʼ (in addition to)); (c) identification of the frameworks of functional polyinterpretation (within the source domains of agreement, comparison and contradiction, and the relationships of cause, conditionality, and admission, etc.), which form the semantic and pragmatic basis of the functioning of the particle also and participate in its decoding and encoding. We will analyse and interpret the selected phenomena based on the data collected from the Slovak National Corpus. The numerous documents support and clarify the analysed issues.
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The topic of the present paper is linguistic self-presentation of the speaker, implemented through the structures with an explicit we and a noun modifier N, which is an updated and ostentatious expression of one of its real or fictitious social and/or personal roles. The structures of collective identity are judged as composite units, which the speaker uses and verifies himself/ herself intuitively. The engagement of the speaker is reflected through the synergy of functions such as communication, thematization, social relations, influence and self-presentation. The study focuses on the interpretation of structures of collective identity of the speaker in terms of their systemic properties and discursive realizations, i.e. in terms of ego projection and ego presentation. We follow from (a) the thematization of collective identity, reflecting on (i) the difference between the cumulative and distributive frequency, (ii) preference of either the classification or qualification reasoning, (iii) use of the pragmatic approach when confirming or denying the factual nature of collective identity, and (b) the role of emphasis in the formation and discursive use of the structures of collective identity of the speaker.
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The study deals with the linguistic self-presentation of the speaker carried out through constructions with an explicit I and a substantive modificator which constitute linguistic presentation of one or more social statuses. Variability of constructions mirrors diversity of attitude constellations. It reflects cognitive and discursive differentiation of the aspect of I as an initiator of self-presentation and an aspect of I as a corrector of self-presentation. This condition has its roots in the duality of self-reflection in which I is enrooted as a subject of activity (dynamic I) and I as an object of self-reflection. Diversity of function and form of the self-presentation constructions in Slovak is determined by the combination of approaches and procedures which use the approaches of self-determination and concretization as well as affirmation and negation.
Slavica Slovaca
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2020
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vol. 55
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issue 2
257 – 268
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This study focuses on the concept of the recipient in terms of (a) his/her intended and real semantic-pragmatic and communicative role, (b) language means used in addressing with illocution toward the recipient and (c) verification of communicative circumstances used in connection with the recipient in the speech acts according to the illocutionary functions because we build on the fact that a speech act is the most essential element of interaction. Our default methodological basis is the understanding of the dual – linguistic and communicative-pragmatic – status of the recipient, resulting in the systemic and functional approach. We will only explore Slovak. The material database will consist of the documents from the Slovak National Corpus because these documents are a representative sample capturing the speech used in different areas of communication. Our approach will be based on the verification of theoretical findings through discursive realizations.
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The central theme of this study is the axiological non-availability of language means in Slovak. It is defined as an inherent semantic-axiological perspective of the language means that determines the syntactic structures of their use and influences the meaning and adequacy of communication interactions. Since the non-available language means involve pragmatically sensitive expressions, will we be interested in exploring the licensed contexts in which they are used by the speakers. As a basic explanatory construct in ego-linguistics, the speaker operates as a person and also in terms of his/her communication roles in linguistic semantics. The study focuses on (a) the issue of attitude and focalization, which is associated with the speaker, and (b) identity and circumstances of distribution of the expressions with a strong and weak non-availability. Our reasoning will be based on the use of the inference scheme known as “abduction”, and/or “abductive explanation”. The data used in our research were taken from the Slovak National Corpus.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2009
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vol. 64
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issue 4
297-311
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The paper shows that certain well established arguments widely used in the philosophy of language to discredit some semantic theories are, in fact, defective (from the methodological viewpoint). In particular, the direct reference theory is usually rejected, because (i) it is impossible to substitute co-referential proper names for each other in epistemic contexts and (ii) true identity sentences of the form 'a = b', where a and b are proper names, have to be both necessary and a posterior. Both arguments are based on what a competent user of a given language is willing to admit or refuse to admit. It is shown that the language user invoked in these arguments has to be perfect in a certain sense. Otherwise, the arguments are inconclusive. However, if perfect speakers enter the picture, these arguments become theory laden in a certain way and thus fail to be neutral means which can be used to distinguish correct theories from incorrect ones. In this sense, they cannot be used to discredit neither the direct reference theory, nor any other rival theory.
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