Pragmatics and cognition: Intention and conceptualization in discourse

Abstract

The study of linguistic personality (LP) in linguopragmatic approach effectively employs pragmatic intentions as a means of representing individual picture of LP by attracting attention, interesting the reader, exerting emotional impact, activizing knowledge structures, stimulating the addressee’s creativity, representing the conceptual world picture. The linguopragmatic analysis is based on lexica-grammatical and linguostylistic ones, and it appears to be their logical continuation in respect of linguopragmatic interpretation of the received data. It is aimed at revealing verbal signals of formation of the pragmatic meanings and their substantial and functional interpretation, defining the pragmatic effect of speech communication. Proceeding from the notion of communicative-pragmatic situation, the analysis of LP is made in the following parameters: subject and aim of communication, social, psychological and individual characteristics of LPs, role and personal relations between LPs. The conducted research confirms the suggested hypothesis that the peculiarity of LP in literary discourse is revealed in a specific linguistic form of reflection of its semantic-stylistic, pragmatic, cognitive, national and cultural characteristics that represent a certain correlate of features of spiritual aspect of LP. The implied findings will be a path to build mental and conceptual correlations in defining LP’s model.