Tambov
All-Russian academic journal
“Issues of Cognitive Linguistics”

DISCOURSE PARADIGM: PHANTOM OBJECTS AND SYNDROMES

DISCOURSE PARADIGM: PHANTOM OBJECTS AND SYNDROMES


Author:  V.E. Tcherniavskaia

Affiliation:  St.Petersburg State Politechnical University

Abstract
Discourse has become a central issue and the most varied notion in the social sciences and humanities. “When talking about discourse, discourse analysts cannot make an assumption that they are engaged in the same discourse” – the keynote, reflecting the present trend.
This contribution gives an overview of the main schools of discourse studies and discourse pattern in the English-, French- and German-speaking areas. Both the complexity and the interdisciplinary significance of the object researched have given rise to a multitude of issues and methodological reflections. The principal tasks of the article are to consider a heuristic potential of discourse, to subject the relevant discourse methods to a critical examination, to show discourse linguistics in relation to cognitive linguistics and text analysis.
The article valuates the application of discourse notion in the Russian linguistic publications in the 1990-2010s, that are getting more and more fuzzy, eclectic, theoretically not referred to any epistemological or methodological background. It emphasizes methodological differences in using the notion of discourse compared to that of functional style, which has been reserved in the Russian linguistic tradition since the 1960-70s for studying linguistic issues in the process, in the extralinguistic context. With the aim of encouraging the theoretical exchange between different theoretical approaches the author underlines, that the main methods of the present discourse analysis were used in the Russian functional stylistics (V. Vinogradov, M. Kozina, A. Vassiljeva, E. Riesel) not as a term, but as its essentials.

Keywords:  text, discourse, functional style, discourse linguistics, cognitive linguistics, text interpretation, frame

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Pages:  54-61

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