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Communicative Demonstrativeness: the Essence and Types

Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article deals with the analysis of communicative demonstrativeness, which is a structural and functional unit of communicative demonstrativeness. The scientific novelty of the work is determined by the unexplored nature of this phenomenon and its components. The purpose of the study is to define the concept of “communicative demonstrativeness" and identify its types. The material of the study are the statements of literary characters from the works of A Kuprin, L. Tolstoy, Ch. Dickens, V Dudintsev and characters of feature films, containing communicative demonstrativeness with a total of 645,000 lexical units. An interdisciplinary approach and the method of psycholinguistic analysis of communicants' speech production are used. As a result of the study it is established that communicative demonstrativeness is a declarative-representative unit of demonstrative communicative tone, which is realized by means of semiotic polymodality, reflects the variability of the personal identity of the producer and is used to manage the impression of the self. It is associated with symbolic representation, the structure of which is formed by denotation, denotation and connotation. Communicative demonstrativities indicate the socio-psychological characteristics of the communicant, his mental and emotional state and social status. Communicative demonstrativities is dynamic: and can change its form or interpretation with the passage of time or the change of charactersological determinants of the sociocultural situation. The main types of communicative demonstrativeness are defined as follows: demonstrative action, demonstrative image, demonstrative object, demonstrative idea and linguistic demonstratives (lexical, syntactic, phraseological, paralinguistic and prosodic). It is emphasized that communicative demonstrativeness, enhanced by emphases and means of exaggeration, accentuate to the addressee the information about the uniqueness of his/ her personality, which is important from the speaker's point of view. The obtained results can be used in the course of semiotics and psycholinguistics.
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4404483397
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