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... refusal, the ways it is performed, supporting moves that aim to mi­tigate its threat, as well as combinations of these and their conventional features. Cont­rastive ana­lysis draws on the main provisions of emotive lingua-ecology, cross-cultural pragmatics, the theory of (im)politeness and communicative ethnostyles. Taking into account the fact that each e-mail may have its own features, predetermined by the author’s idiostyle and psy­cho­logical characteristics, as well as the context of ...

The linguistic and pragmatic analysis of expressive means in political texts is gaining popularityamong researchers. The study of the role of meta­phor in enhancing the pragmatic effectiveness of political speech is relevant due to the fact that metaphor, being not only ...

... 3 (2), pp. 261—284. Baker, W., 2018. English as a lingua franca and intercultural communication. In: J. Jenkins, W. Baker and M. Dewey, eds. The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca . London: Routledge, pp. 25—36. Baraldi, C., 2019. Pragmatics and agency in healthcare interpreting. In: R. Tipton and L. Desilla, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Pragmatics . London: Routledge, pp. 319—335. Blommaert, J. and Rampton, B., 2011. Language and superdiversity. Diversities,...

The ‘pragmatics of language’ is a set of pragmatic means of a particular language, the meanings of which not only change the world, but also themselves change in the framework of discourse. At the same time, ‘linguistic pragmatics’ is a branch of linguistics ...

... reveals the local, cultural (and supposedly age) specifics of employing the universal face-saving mechanism of the communication. Arundale, R., 2010. Constituting face in conversation: face, facework and interac­tional achievement. Journal of Pragmatics , 42 (8), pp. 2078—2105, http://doi . org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.021. Arundale, R., 2013. Conceptualizing ‘interaction’ in interpersonal pragmatics: Implications for understanding and research. Journal of Pragmatics , 58, pp 12—26,...

This article considers irony as an independent textual category contain­ing the author’s judgement and facilitating the expression of the author’s pragmatic attitudes in a literary text. The study investigates the potential and functioning of parenthesis structures as syntactic markers of irony in Niko­lai Gogol's works. The assessment categories used to express the pragmatic at­titudes of the ...

... the amplification of meaning and emergence of new semantic projections. The investigation of the play — theatrical performance transformations made it possible to identify the specific levels of semiotic creativity, which correspond to the degree of pragmatic identity of the original content and its modulations. The author singled out the level of pragmatic equivalence and the level of pragmatic modulation, which account for different pragmatic effects produced and illustrated the realization of ...

... M. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The author identifies logical and psychological types of argumentation characteristic of the 19th-century courtroom speeches. Such speeches use a complex structure of theses and arguments and employ various pragmatic and rhetorical means and devices alongside compound and complex sentences. The force of persuasion of the prosecutor’s speech depends on its emotional effect on the jury. The author concludes that the distinctive characteristics of speeches ...

... About some types of semantic interaction between words with meaning 'enough' and particles. In: Logicheskii analiz yazyka. «Problemy intensional'nykh i pragmaticheskikh kontekstov» [Logical analysis of the language. "Problems of Intensional and Pragmatic Contexts"]. Moscow, pp. 197—215. 10. Boguslavskii, I. M., 1996. Sfera deistviya leksicheskikh edinits [Scope of lexical units action]. Moscow. 11. Brutyan, L. G., 1992. Analiz yazykovykh vyrazhenii implikatsii [The analysis of language ...

The possibilities for improvement of the first volumes of the Academic edition of Kant’s works are discussed. The collegiality and deliberativeness of the researchers and institutions, involved in Kantian studies, which allowed for the high quality of early volumes, is absent today. The responsible institutions and publishers do not react to information regarding even the most obvious shortcomings and mistakes that could be easily corrected, while the plans for future reprints are based predominantly...

... paper contrasts the distribution of vague reference speech cues used to shape referents in names (placeholders) and point the way to the referent in predications (approximators), both aligned with functional gestures (deictic, representational, and pragmatic). The findings reveal several regulations that constrain the distribution and alignment of speech cues and gestures. First, the prevalence of approximators is observed, indicating that a higher input of predication expresses vague reference....

The paper views pragmatic meanings that have regular expression in language. Such meanings are 1) the illocutionary goal (illocutionary force) of an utterance, 2) the illocu­tio­nary function of a component of an utterance (theme and rheme of a statement, the known ...

This article examines the pragmatic meaning of the slang lexeme chuvak [dude], primar­ily when used as an address. The study aims to identify the components of this pragmatic meaning that contributed to the resurgence of the lexical unit in the 21st century after a peri­od of ...

Taking into account the dual nature of the concept of “discourse,” which forms the basis for defining discursive competence, the expediency of using a cognitive-pragmatic approach in developing the discursive competence of students in language-oriented programs is justified, with a description of its main principles. Didactic principles are identified: the principle of contextuality, the principle of speech-thinking activity, the principle of cooperation and interactivity, the principle of professional...

... академии наук. 2009. Т. 11, № 4 (5). С. 1337—1343. 13. Austin J. L. How to Do Things with Words. Oxford, 1962. 14. Brown P., Levinson S. Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cam­bridge, 1987. P. 56—311. 15. Leech G. N. Principles of Pragmatics. L., 1983. 16. Niсoloff F. Threats and Illocutions // Journal of Pragmatics. 1989. Vol. 13, iss. 4. P. 501—522. 17. Ohm E., Thompson V. Everyday reasoning with inducements and ad­vice // Thinking and Reasoning. 2004. Vol. 10, № 3. Р....

The purpose of this article is to describe pragmatic characteristics of complex sentences with relative clauses in the German media discourse. The author selects the following pragmatic schemes of hypotaxis structures of the studied type: specification, problematization, irony, simplification,...

This article provides a general characterization of the pragmatic focusing, determines the role of the theme of the scientific text and its influence on the distribution of certain foci through its structure. As an illustration for the indicated statements, it proposes the linguistic analysis of the original ...

... increased attention to the prag­matics of the message. The Internet influences the activation of the communication function, and metalinguistic reflection in poetry manifests itself through the violation of grammatical norms, the graphic highlighting of pragmatic markers, and the representation of computer interface elements such as messengers, social networks, etc. At the same time, the media inter­face creates a multiplicity of addressing and influences the strategies of indirect subjectivation that ...

... Nolan, D., 2021. Hyperintensionality. In: E. N. Zalta and U. Nodel­man, eds. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Available at: https://plato.stanford . edu/entries/hyperintensionality/ [Accessed 1 March 2023]. Borg, E., 2012. Semantics without Pragmatics? In: K. Allan and K. Jaszczolt, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics . Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 513—528. Burge, T., 1979. Sinning against Frege. Philosophical Review , 88 (3), pp. 398—432. Caplan, B., ...

... pp. 81—112. Hopper, P. and Thompson, S., 1980. Transitivity in grammar and discourse. Lan­guage, 56 (2), pp. 251—299. Hopper, P. and Thompson, S., eds., 1982. Studies in Transitivity. Syntax and Se­mantics 15. N. Y., etc. Jasinskaja, E., 2009. Pragmatics and Prosody of Implicit Discourse Relations. Ph. D. Tübingen. Prince, E., 1981. Toward a taxonomy of given-new information. In: P. Cole, ed. Radical Pragmatics. N. Y. pp. 223—256. Ruytenbeek, N., 2017. The comprehension of indirect requests: ...

... identification of semiotic markers of age identity. The promising area of linguistic research — social semiotics — lends an urgency to such a study. To achieve the goal of the research, I employ the methods of contextual analysis and semantic and pragmatic interpretation. The qualitative calculations ensure the relevance of the study, which takes into account the intentional and stylistic features of compliments and reactions to compliments. The need to study these aspects is explained by the ...

... think politics?]. Moscow, Logos (in Russ.). Gerasimov, S.V., 2015. Closing the circle of manipulation. Filosofskie Nauki [Philosophical Sciences], 5, pp. 34-41 (in Russ.). Zolyan, S.T., 2017а. “One and the same" historical event. Semantics and pragmatics. In: E.I. Pivovar, ed. Gumanitarnyye chteniya RGGU — 2016 [Readings in Humanities in RSUH — 2016]. Moscow, pp. 438-462 (in Russ.). Zolyan, S.T., 2017б. "Repeatability" of events in historical discourse: semantics and pragmatics....

... without E-type pronoun: How Peirce’s Graphs capture the uniqueness implication of donkey sentences, in Synthese, no. 192 (4), pp. 971—990. 8. Hookway, C., 1985. Peirce, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 9. Hookway, C., 2002, Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism: Themes from Peirce, New York, Oxford University Press. 10. Keeler, M., 1995, The Philosophical Context of Peirce's Existential Graphs. University of Washington, Seattle, available at: www.dipf.de/projekte/PaedSem HCI/Texte/Keeler context....

This study explores the pragmatic potential of linguistic means used to explicate the call-to-action strategy in English-language environmental discourse. The position of environmen­tal discourse within the broader discursive space is defined, and a brief overview of relevant ...

... unexpected meeting, while Kto tam? (Who’s there?) is a standard formulaic reaction to a knock at the door. The collection, classification and study of units of this kind is of undoubted interest both from the point of view of discourse theory and pragmatics, and from the point of view of the practice of mastering live spoken Russian by foreign speakers. Routinicon is a natural extension of the projects Russian Constructicon and Pragmaticon and borrows principles of data collection and data processing ...

... genre framework, and the pragmatic-semantic role of these strategies in achieving extralinguistic objectives. The novelty of this study lies in its comprehensive approach to analyzing the President’s foreign policy addresses, integrating linguistic, pragmatic, and genre-discursive aspects. For the first time, a detailed comparison of cooperative and confrontational strategies is conducted through the lens of their linguistic realization in the context of temporal dynamics. It has been determined ...

The article provides a functional interpretation of explanation. It is based on the principles of Linguistic Pragmatics and Functional Linguistics. Explanation is analysed from two perspectives: as a communicative act and as a two-part discursive structure. The com­mu­nicative act of explanation is characterised by a perlocutionary goal of making the reader ...

... Grice, H. P., 1985. Logic and speech communication. In: Novoe v zarubezhnoi ling ­ vistike [New in foreign linguistics]. Vol. 16. Moscow, pp. 217—237 (in Russ.). Johnson-Laird, P. N. and Byrne, R. M. J., 2002. Conditionals: A theory of meaning, pragmatics, and inference. Psychological Review , 109 (4), pp. 646—678, https://doi . org/10.1037/0033-295x.109.4.646. Kaneman, D. and Tversky, A., 2020. Judgments in conditions of uncertainty: heu­ristic methods and errors. In: D. Kaneman, ed....

... In: I. Kant, 2007. Anthropology, History, and Education. Edited by G. Zöller and R. B. Louden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 107-120. Kemling, J., 2019. [Book Review] Skowroński Krzysztof Piotr & Sami Pihlström (eds.) Pragmatist Kant: Pragmatism, Kant, and Kantianism in the Twenty-First Century. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/ejpap.1790 . Knyazeva, E. N., 2019. Animals’ Signs and Man’s Symbols: Mutual Influence of J. von ...

... failures in speech interaction and the violation of conventions and rules governing discursive behaviour. Linguistic contradictions and conflicts are analysed within the framework of emotiology, at the level of emotivity and the emotive field in the pragmatic space of artistic discourse, as a multimodal phenomenon shaped by systemic relations of emotionalism. Discursive contradictions function as key elements of the structural tension in the text, serving as linguistic and semantic dominants or attractors....

This article explores the semantic and pragmatic features of the word 'mother' when used as a term of address. It examines secondary uses of the term in literary texts from the 1780s to the present, a sample of 4,272 tokens, alongside dictionary definitions. The study revealed that, in different ...

... politeness in com­munication. Human. Culture. Education , 2 (12), pp. 166—173 (in Russ.). Larina, T., 2015. Culture-Specific Communicative Styles as a Framework for In­terpreting Linguistic and Cultural Idiosyncrasies. International Review of Pragmatics . no. 7. pp. 195—215, https://doi.org/10.1163/18773109-00702003 . Larina, T. V., 2009. Kategoriya vezhlivosti i stil' kommunikatsii. Sopostavlenie an­gliiskikh i russkikh lingvokul'turnykh traditsii [The Category of Politeness and the ...

... into several types: those containing information about the disease — informative (leading function — informative); created to encourage patients to take care of their own health, engage in disease prevention — persuasive (leading function — pragmatic); created to attract potential clients to a medical institution, shape the organization’s image, promote medical products and ser­vices — advertising (leading function — representational). Based on the analyzed material, recommendations ...

... to determine the genre status and identify genre features of the “Company History” subsection on the corporate website. It has been estab­lished that the corporate website is a hypergenre, its sections are genres, and subsections are subgenres. Pragmatic, media-related, structural-semantic, and stylistic-linguistic subgenre parameters of the “Company History” subsection are examined. A comprehensive initial communicative goal of this subsection is identified: to shape a positive image, create ...

... speech act of threat can take in the political dis­courses of two Europe­an countries: Germany and Spain. It attempts to identi­fy similarities and structural differences in the realization of speech acts of threat at the lexical, grammatical, and pragmatic levels by politicians in these countries. The study relies on sixty-six speeches of German and Spanish poli­ticians: Alexander Gauland, Alice Weidel, Mariano Ra­joy, and Íñigo Méndez de Vigo. 1. Анцупов А. Я., Шипилов А....

... linguistic factors influencing the development of the semantic content of language anomalies and encouraging the use of the latter in public speech. The study found that the ability of linguistic deviations to acquire and convey relevant stylistic and pragmatic meanings in the discourse space en­hanced the semantic content, ex­pressiveness, and emotionality of these mean­ings. All this creates conditions for anomalies to function in political texts as expres­sive stylistic means that have a high ...

The article discusses the communicative and pragmatic nature of intertextuality in political discourse, realized by different intertextual inclusions: allusions perform thematic functions in utterances specifying the thematic line in discourse while citations and phraseological units are used to ...

... important problem is adapting such terms to the system of the target language. Translators working in IT are required to have extensive expertise in informatics. Only this will guarantee the choice of a translation strategy adequate for the task of pragmatic adaptation. 1. Ваулина Е.Ю. Информатика. Толковый словарь. М., 2005. 2. Герасимова Н.И. Прагматическая адаптация IT-текстов информационного дискурса ...

The article discusses the pragmatic potential of inter-textual inclusions in political discourse and how this potential is determined by the commonly shared precedent knowledge held in the cognitive base of all the members of the society. The paper touches upon the notion of precedent ...

This article deals with the functional and semantic features of performative verbs in the texts of documents. Performatives are defined as significant structure and content components of text solving the pragmatic task of establishing the contact between the addresser and addressee. The author identifies the communicative and pragmatic features of this genre of documents in view of its subgenre types. 1. Апресян Ю. Д. Перформативы ...

... group of phraseological reflexes based on an assonance rhyme with an initial interrogative utterance. Assonance phraseological reflexes cannot perform a descriptive or nominative function acting in the process of verbal interaction only as markers of pragmatic intentions. Therefore, the attempts to describe them in terms of traditional semantics prove unsuccessful. A proper study of assonance phraseological reflexes is possible only in the framework of speech act theory. From the cognitive perspective,...

The orientation function of newspaper headlines is considered as one of its major pragmatic properties. Special attention is paid to analysing verbal and non-verbal means of headline implementation of headlines that significantly increase its pragmatic potential. The study is based on headlines of the Russian federal and regional press ...

This article analyses the linguistic characteristics of similes in the works of modern American writer Khaled Hosseini. It provides an interpretation of the semantic, structural, and pragmatic features of comparative structures containing a comparison concept and a concept under comparison that have a referential correlation with the spheres of the spiritual and material world. It is concluded that that that stylistic device of simile,...

The author analyses the linguistic and pragmatic aspects of retrospective discourse which is structured by various means including culture-specific words. The author offers a systematized classification of these words depending on the effect these words produce on the reader. Special attention ...

This article focuses on Russianisms used in Polish journalistic discourse. The author considers foreign inclusions as a component of the paradigm of foreign language units and identifies their pragmatic function. 1. Виноградов В. В. Вопросы образования русского национального литературного языка // Вопросы языкознания. 1956. № 1. С. 3—25. 2. Влахов ...

This article deals with the main types of speech acts with the meaning of consent in the contemporary dialogical discourse. The author identifies the specific pragmatic features of speech acts of consent and offers their typology. 1.  Баранов А.   Н., Крейдлин Г.   Е. Иллокутивное вынуждение в структуре диа­лога // Вопросы языкознания....

... of the granting the Charge-Free Land Property for multi-child families, and also so-called project of the "Charge-Free Far Eastern Hectare". Based on the conducted analysis the authors of the article have made several suggestions regarding pragmatic realization of the constitutional principle of the Welfare State (Social State), and also regarding further modernization of the existing projects of social innovations in the Russian Federation. The authors are investigating the content and ...