Author’s name:
Dmitry A. Kononov – Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia
Abstract:
The communicative and discourse-centered approach has proven to be the most effective in exploring key semantic concepts in James Joyce’s work. This approach combines linguistic text analysis with an attempt to understand the author’s picture of the world and its verbal realization. The purpose of this research is to analyze how the various communication act models in the text represent the concept “father,” one of the three most significant concepts of “Ulysses.” To achieve this goal, the author of the article provides a definition of the communication act model, classifies the relevant models connected with the concept “father,” and examines them using the methods of descriptive, comparative, and quantitative analysis. Monologues form key communication acts in the novel, also exercising significant impact on other types of communication act models, namely: the dialogue and the polylogue. Communicative failures are also very typical, and models with such failures are more common than those characterized by communicative success. These features have deliberate etiology, serving to fulfill the author’s intention, and represent a lack of inner harmony, which is an important feature of the dominant concept “father” in the novel.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2023-62-2-56-71 |
| Downloads | 250 |
| Key words | author’s worldview; communicative failure; communication act model; regulativity; dominant concept |