LANGUAGE REFLEXIVES OF A SPEAKER AS MEANS OF COMMUNICANTS’ HARMONIZATION

LANGUAGE REFLEXIVES OF A SPEAKER AS MEANS OF COMMUNICANTS’ HARMONIZATION

Author:  Kotsova E.E.

Affiliation:  Northern Arctic Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov

Abstract:  Studying the ways of speech implementation of language means taking into account the factor of the speaker, his appraisive attitude is one of the promising areas of research in the field of functional lexicology and cognitive linguistics.
The target of the research is language reflexives of a speaker, the subject matter is analysis of language reflexives as a way of communicants’ harmonization, increasing the degree of speech perception “identity” by a receiver. With the aid of a reflexive the word choice is motivated according to external or internal parameters. 
Reflexives are considered in terms of suitability of lexical means chosen by a speaker, to his communicative intentions. We distinguish three situations of adequacy of these means to perform communicative tasks. They are: that of adequacy, that of incomplete adequacy, that of inadequacy of lexical means for the addressee’s perception. Characterization of reflexives is given depending on the degree of closeness of the words commented to the zone of active usual vocabulary or “the risk zone”, on the speaker’s taste preferences as a linguistic identity (evaluation, explanation, comment, antithesis, motivation, etc.).
The research done has driven us to the following conclusion. Anthropocentric importance of reflexives in speech is determined by the fact that they help to harmonize the language codes of communicants, to look into the creative workshop of writers, reveal the depth and degree of subjectivity in their reflection of reality.

Keywords:  a language reflexive, communicants, risk zone, usual, communicative intentions of a speaker

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Pages:  104-110