Discourse precision: functional characteristics
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-712X-2022-3-2-61-71
Abstract
Aim. To analyze the category of communicative linguistics “discourse precision”.
Methodology. The methods of definitive, contextual and interpretative analysis have been applied.
Results. The main results of the research is a description of discourse precision treated as functionally determined correlation between the contents of speech and aims of communication. Such precision is a gradual category specific for different discourse types. The paper characterizes peculiarities of manifestation of discourse precision and its deviation in habitual, artistic, institutional and scientific communication. Deviations from discourse precision may be intentional and not deliberate. They consist in inappropriate use of various ways and means of communication, in digression from communication principles of cooperation and politeness, in arbitrary treating the signs used, in banalities and tautology and similar recursive sentences, in bizarre transposition of genres, in logical inconsistency which makes communication absurd. Habitual non-precision in speech is usually compensated by paraverbal means of communication, while non-precision in artistic creations is either a deliberate description of characters or evidence of the low level of the text. Deviation in institutional discourse makes the communication irrelevant, e.g. contracts turn out to be inoperative and advertisement ineffective. Non-precision in the scientific text indicates the lack of professionalism of its authors.
Research implications. The theoretical significance of the paper consists in the definition of discourse theory categories, its practical value may be presented as an opportunity to apply the results obtained in the courses of communication theory and discourse theory. Both the factual material presented in the article and the conclusions made by the author may be used in the development of the theory of linguistics, theory of discourse analysis, as well as in teaching of the general linguistics, introduction to linguistics.
About the Author
V. I. Karasik
Pushkin State Russian Language Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir I. Karasik – Dr. Sci. (Philology), Prof., Department of General and Russian Linguistics
ulitsa Akademika Volgina 6, Moscow 117485
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