Destruction of Communicative Pragmatics in Contemporary Absurdist Dramaturgic Texts

Abstract

The aim of the article is characteristics of mechanisms of pragmatics distraction in communication of active participants of modern Ukrainian plays with features of the theatre of the absurdity. Structural and contextual mechanisms of dialogic speech depragmatization are singled out on factual material. In a dramatic dialogue absurdity is explained as a purposeful instruction to convey the thought about illogicalness and chaotic nature of reality, the aimlessness of a human being. The main methods of the study are descriptive, context-interpreting and presuppositional. Деструкція комунікативної прагматики в сучасних абсурдистських... 196 © Корольова Вал ерія & Ірина Попова Study results. One of absurdity occurrence mechanisms is depragmatizationpurposeful non-normative usage of language pragmatic resources. We identify structural and contextual violations within depragmatization. Structural violations are characteristic for an absurdist drama in which characters' cues do not have illocutionary and thematic coherence. Another type of structural violations is conscious violations of formal structure of linguistic units. Role exchange, during which an active participant takes over someone else's communicative role, is an example of contextual depragmatization. Within contextual violations we also identify the group of cognitive violations which is based on non-observance of causally consecutive and logical connections. Anomalies based on an arbitrary choice of language stylistic means, which are uncoordinated with general principles of stylistic formalization of the text, are considered the contextual variety of depragmatization. Conclusions. Structural and contextual communicative violations are used by playwrights to activate the sense of the situational absurdity depicted in a work. Active participants of drama of the absurdity communicate without communicative purpose and taking into account situational needs, which results in actualization of pragmatic potential of used linguistic units, falsification of meaningful speech.

Parámetros linguo-pragmáticos de los mini textos literarios en inglés y ucraniano

“…Modern literary fashion discourse is one of the most actively developing in the field of popular publications for young people and in the professional fashion industry. Pragmatic issues of overt and covert influence are actively analysed in Ukraine (Korolova, 2020;Koval & Makar, 2019), and abroad (Capone, 2017). Most often, pragmatic aspects are actively studied on the basis of political media discourse (Hameed, 2020;Liang & Liu, 2016) or advertisements (Ledeneva, 2017).…”

“…There are also attempts to explore pragmatic connections and ways of communicative pragmatics, including its destruction, in modern absurdist dramatic texts (Korolova, 2020). In the light of these scientific observations, the task of linguists is not only to determine the body of language tools used in the genre of mini-texts of different types of discourse, but also to identify those linguistic techniques that can effectively solve specific problems of each type of discourse maximally focused on the implementation of the function of communicative influence on people.…”