Abstract
The present paper is based on an interview, conducted by Victor V. Leontyev with Juliane House and Dániel Z. Kádár. It provides an overview of a new theory in pragmatics, namely, Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (RFIEs). This theory provides a bottom-up and corpus-based approach to the study of various pragmatically important expressions through which the participants of an interaction indicate their awareness of the Ritual Frame underlying the interaction. 'Ritual Frame' encompasses a cluster of standard situations in which the rights and obligations of the participants are clearly defined. The corpus-based RFIE approach complements sociopragmatic approaches to various expression types, including so-called 'politeness markers', honorifics, forms of address and so on, and it also helps us to systematically capture the relationship between expressions and speech acts. In studying RFIEs, the analyst focuses on the ways in which RFIEs spread across various standard situations. The study of this issue also allows the researcher to contrastively examine the use of RFIEs across linguacultures. Such contrastive research helps us to unearth major linguacultural differences. For example, the research of J. House and D.Z. Kádár has revealed that while in East Asian linguacultures such as Chinese RFIEs tend to be strongly associated with a particular speech act, this relationship is casual in Western linguacultures.
Highlights
Leontyev about the work of Juliane House and Dániel Z. Discusses their Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (RFIE) Theory. This theory systematises the use of many different pragmatically important expressions, and among such expressions it devotes special attention to expressions which are popularly associated with certain speech acts
RFIE Theory challenges the unquestioned association between such expressions and politeness, by pointing out that RFIEs indicate rights and obligations and a broader “Ritual Frame”
The concept of Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (RFIEs) helps one to investigate the relationship between expressions and ritual and conventional norms governing the use of these expressions [Kádár, House, 2020a, p. 83]
Summary
В материале представлена новая теория в области прагматики, а именно теория изучения языковых индикаторов ритуальных фреймов (ЯИРФ). Она базируется на «нисходяще-восходящем» и корпусном подходах к изучению прагматически важных выражений, при помощи которых участники коммуникативного взаимодействия указывают на свою осведомленность о ритуальном фрейме как фундаменте общения. Опирающийся на анализ данных из языковых корпусов подход с применением ЯИРФ дополняет существующие социопрагматические подходы к изучению различных языковых единиц и выражений, включая «маркеры вежливости», гоноративы, формы обращений и т. Исследуя ЯИРФ, аналитик фокусирует свое внимание на способах, при помощи которых ЯИРФ распространяются в различных стандартных ситуациях. Ключевые слова: языковые индикаторы ритуальных фреймов, стандартные ситуации, конвенционализация, теория вежливости, сравнительный прагматический анализ. В. Языковые индикаторы ритуальных фреймов (научная беседа) // Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета.
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