Linguoaxiological Foundations of Communicative Conflicts in the English Drama Discourse

Author’s name:
Julia S. Starostina, Larissa M. Leonovich – Samara National Research University named after ac. S. P. Korolev, Samara, Russia

Abstract:

The article examines the linguoaxiological nature of communicative conflicts within the Eng-lish drama discourse, seeking to provide a comprehensive description and analysis of the linguoaxiological basis of interpersonal conflicts presented within the frame of dramatic dialogue. It’s a first attempt to pinpoint both the cognitive causes of verbal conflict and the specifics of its linguistic shape from the linguoaxiological perspective, which determines the novelty of the research. The material used for the study included a selection of dialogue fragments which represent cases of communicative conflicts in the works by contemporary English-speaking playwrights. Using the framework of the discourse-communicative linguoaxio-logical approach, the authors employed the method of comprehensive linguoaxiological interpretation, which involves the analysis of linguistic means used to convey value-evaluative attitudes and the analysis of discourse characteristics of communication. Based on the results of the study, the authors introduced, defined, and substantiated the concept of a linguoaxiologi-cal clash as a cognitive and communicative phenomenon that forms motivation for interper-sonal conflicts, mapping out and dually systematizing a whole range of value dominants, the clash of which shows conflict potential within the framework of dramatic dialogue. To this effect, the authors singled out and illustrated two pairs of values which cause interpersonal conflict and provoke communicative failure if they happen to clash in a verbal exchange, and went on to establish a correlation between the linguoaxiological clash, the discourse parame-ters of the communicative situation, and the high density of relevant linguistic means through the condensation of evaluative means and multi-level intensifiers within the dialogue. It was also established that communicative conflicts based on a linguoaxiological clash have clear gender and age discourse markings. The authors conclude that the linguoaxiological clash can be recognized as a deep inner cause of interpersonal communicative conflicts, driven by a fundamental divergence in unique individual linguoaxiospheres of communicants with simultaneous accentuation of elements within the social value system. The study contributes to the development of the methodological platform of discourse-communicative linguoaxiology and could serve as a basis for further study of multiformat verbal conflicts in various discourse practices.

Section LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
DOI: 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2022-58-2-63-75
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Key words linguoaxiology; value dominant; evaluative marker; drama discourse; dialogue; communicative failure

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