O funkcji pragmatycznej napisów na T-shirtach (na materiale języka czeskiego)
The pragmatic function of inscriptions on T-shirts (on the material of the Czech language)

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the problem of pragmatic function of T-shirts inscriptions in Czech language. The Author analyzes T-shirts inscriptions from the point of view of speech genres and discusses problems of their typology. This paper is devoted to the role of the speaker of the statement and his communicative intentions. The author finally concludes that T-shirts inscriptions can not be considered as speech genres, but they have an illocutionary-act potential. Consequently, the author proposes to consider these inscriptions in the presentation of Mikhail Bakhtin‘s theory of carnivalesque.

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