Authors’ names:
Svetlana Ye. Bugrova, Irina N. Kabanova – Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Abstract:
The article looks at the communicative act as a complex notion, different from the speech act and determined by both linguistic and extralinguistic components of the communicative situation, namely such pragmatic determinants as knowledge about the world, opinions, communicative intentions and goals of the speaker necessary for understanding the text. A basic term of the theory of communication, the communicative act is a multi-stage structure in which the first, preliminary phase proves to be of the highest importance. It is the stage when the speaker realizes inner motives and needs which define potential behavior patterns, and forms the communicative intention, aimed at realizing the overarching social goal. The process of communication is often accompanied by communicative failures or “problems” which cause misunderstandings and may be triggered by both linguistic and extralinguistic factors. To eliminate misunderstanding between the interlocutors, any informative vacuum which is there must be filled or compensated. There are explicit verbal markers that signal communicative failures, also signaling the emergence of an additional communicative act which seeks to eliminate the communicative failure and therefore сan be described as compensatory. Thus the compensatory communicative act, as opposed to the global communicative act, is always governed by the communicative goal of eliminating communicative failure.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2024-66-2-9-18 |
| Downloads | 214 |
| Key words | communicative act; communicative act structure; global communicative act; communicative failure; compensatory means; compensatory communicative act |