Published: 2022-09-03

Aesthetic speech act as a category of pragmatics

Aleksander Kiklewicz Logo ORCID , Sebastian Przybyszewski Logo ORCID

Abstract

The authors treat aesthetic speech acts as stimulating, i.e. within the category of determining speech acts (which also includes directive, interrogative, vocative and creative acts). A characteristic feature of stimulating speech acts is the nativistic nature of the determined mental state of the addressee. In formal terms, the peculiarity of aesthetic speech acts is that the use of discrete (lexical or grammatical) exponents of the illocutionary function is not possible in this case. To implement the aesthetic function, various elements of the part of the utterance containing information about the area of ​​reference of the pragmatic function are used: 1) the semantic content of the text or utterance; 2) its form and structure; 3) context and communication situation; 4) translation of text/message, including the media. Due to their functional and formal features, aesthetic speech acts are divided into several subtypes: 1) macro-, meso- and micro-acts; 2) free vs. complementary acts; 3) determining the feeling of beauty or ugliness; 4) communicative vs. non-communicative.

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Kiklewicz, A., & Przybyszewski, S. (2022). Aesthetic speech act as a category of pragmatics. Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (3 (179), 237–259. https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.12949

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No. 3 (179) (2022)
Published: 2022-09-06


ISSN: 0137-298X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/pr

Publisher
Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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