Pragmatic determination of as if (akoby) in ego-related contexts Cover Image

Pragmatické určenie akoby v egovzťažných súvislostiach
Pragmatic determination of as if (akoby) in ego-related contexts

Author(s): Jana Sokolová
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Pragmatics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: egocentric expression; speaker; ego-related interpretation; equivalence; possibility; conjunction; particle

Summary/Abstract: The impetus to write this paper was an analysis of the expression as if (akoby) as a component of the "equivalence" principle and the determination of its legitimacy as a component of the "behavior" principle. The study is focused on the search for further connections between the verbal behavior of the speaker and the linguistic aspects of as if (akoby) because it is used as a manifestation of motivated, ego-related and assertive verbal behavior. As if (akoby) an be viewed as: (a) a component of the principle of verbal behavior that attributes an egocentric meaning to the speaker´s behavior; (b) an egocentric expression of the hypotaxis with an implicit speaker and the semantics of circumstantial and characteristic contexts; (c) a pragmatic mmarker of the speaker´s ego-related interpretation of facts. Interpretation, which is grasped is grasped at the following two levels, is the methodological framework of the monitored aspects: (i) in the sense of the ego-related evaluation of a fact or event by the speaker, i.e. in the sense of participatory interpretation, and (ii) in the sense of expainning the verbal behavior of the speaker, i.e. in the sense of searching for the motives, intentions and goals that form the preconditions for his/her verbal behavior.

  • Issue Year: 74/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 459-476
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Slovak