Abstract
associated with verbal and non-verbal communication. The purpose of the article is to study the discursive and communicative-pragmatic nature of poetical images of silence in the English-language literary discourse. The universal and cultural functions of this notion were analysed and the main approaches to the poetical silence study were determined. It became clear that the phenomenon of Nature Silence can be actualised with the help of Nature and other landscape images in the field of English literary discourse. Such images must belong to the paradigm of English landscape images represented by Earthy, Aerial and Celestial substantial nature symbols. In terms of discourse-communicative approach to the study of communicative silence, these elements play an important role of the main producers of Nature Silence. This work proposes the new pragmatic and communicative approach of understanding the Nature silence in English literary discourse. The main verbal units that can actualise the poetical image of silence are characterised by the permanent correlation with the different symbols of nature, showing the dominant and peripheral characteristics. Being the pragmatic realisation of silence image, motives of Nature Silence may be considered both as dominant and background.
Highlights
Communication is an essential part and precondition of life and social activity
The article considers the pragmatics of silence image in English poetry
Significant silence in English-language literary discourse differs in its producers, which can be divided into two groups: Homo Silence and Nature Silence (Issakova et al, 2021)
Summary
Communication is an essential part and precondition of life and social activity. We along with Adrian Akmajian (2001) take the term pragmatics to cover the study of language use, and particular the study of linguistic communication, in relation to language structure and context of utterance. The notion of communication is closely related to speaking, but it should be noted that these notions have different meanings. According to Florii Batsevych (2010), speaking is a general notion that means the set of connections and interconnections between people, society, experience, skills, and results of different activities. The notion of communication is more specific – it is connected with only one type of speaking and implies the semantically meaningful aspect of social interconnection in the process of sharing information in different speaking activities. One of the elements of communicative linguistics is poetical communication, which is represented by constructive units of the poetical text in different poetical communication acts (Aimukhambet et al, 2017)
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