FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC PARAMETERS OF THE REFUSAL COMMUNICATIVE ACT IN UKRAINIAN LITERARY DISCOURSE Cover Image

ФУНКЦІЙНО-СЕМАНТИЧНІ ПАРАМЕТРИ КОМУНІКАТИВНОГО АКТУ ВІДМОВИ В УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ ХУДОЖНЬОМУ ДИСКУРСІ
FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC PARAMETERS OF THE REFUSAL COMMUNICATIVE ACT IN UKRAINIAN LITERARY DISCOURSE

Author(s): Оksana Maksymiuk, Natalia Maksymiuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Communication studies, Semantics
Published by: Видавництво ВДНЗ України « Буковинський державний медичний університет »
Keywords: communicative refusal act; communicators; assertive acts; directive acts; illocutive strength; intention;

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the communicative act. The communicative act is defined as conceptually and structurally organized exchange of communicative activities of speakers with in the verbal contact, in which the basic meaning is a discourse that relies on a certain situation. So the research of refusal communicative acts becomes urgent because they are inelienable components of everyday speech and they operate on the field of noncooperative verbal interaction and also the analysis of semantical, pragmatical and discussional peculiarities. Semantic and pragmatic aspects of research involves the description of refusal communicative acts from the viewpoint of the theory of speech genres and the theory of speech acts. Cognitive and communicative-pragmatic aspects are harmoniously combined and focused in the structure of the «linguistic identity» notion. Having analysed precisely the internal structure of the communicative act we can make the conclusions that refusal acts as polyillocutiv items by its nature show broad functional variability of speaker’s intention. The dominating component of the content or the method of its transfer the illocutive means are combined in acts of assertion and direction of the pragmatic space of interaction. In acts assertion the assertive and expressive strenght (positive sign) become crucial, in acts of direction – directive and expressive (negative sign) become crucial. The choice of refusal illocutive mean is caused by the following factors: the nature of the presentation of a stimulus and the intention status of the speaker. They cause the modification of the ultimate goal of the initiator of refuse: regulation plan of actions of initiaror of incentive, consolidation of relations and maintaining the positive image, oppression of the interests of incentive initiator, rejection of his plan of actions, and the subordination of his intentions of interests to the interests of initiator of refuse.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 11-15
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Ukrainian