THE USE OF COPULATIVE SENTENCES IN THE DISCOURSE OF A RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SERMON IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SPEECH ACT

THE USE OF COPULATIVE SENTENCES IN THE DISCOURSE OF A RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SERMON IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SPEECH ACT

Author:  V.A. Burtsev

Affiliation:  Bunin Yelets State University, YelSU

Abstract:  The article touches upon the questions related to the description of the semantics of utterances in a discourse. In particular, the author looks into the questions of the actualization of a sentence in a speech, the speaker’s locutive activity, an illocutionary meaning and the conditions under which it becomes definite.
The study is carried out on the material of the speech acts involving the use of copulative sentences (where the predicate is represented by the coordinated noun) in the discourse of a Russian Orthodox sermon. The aim of the work is to show that in the discourse of a sermon the meaning of the utterance, the propositional and illocutionary aspects of the speech act are not regulated by the speaker’s locutive activity.
The author argues that the speech acts and their meanings are determined by the mechanism of asubjectivation. Asubjectivation is seen as the subordination of the speaker, who acts as a bearer of somebody else’s opinion which dominates his own one. The article draws particular attention to the fact that it is asubjectivation that serves as a right concept for describing the semantics of an utterance in a discourse and the main method for its analysis is paraphrasing. Paraphrasing makes it possible to describe the semantic relations between sentences within the paradigm of utterances which can be produced on the basis of the original sentence.
Asubjectivation leads to the following features of using copulative sentences in a discourse: 1) the utterances are strongly idiomatized and demonstrate a complete reduction of the predication act; 2) the reference mechanism is not controlled by the deictic condition; 3) there is only one illocutionary function, which is a message; 4) copulative sentences in a sermon cannot be used metaphorically, although some constructions are lexically similar to metaphors and could have metaphorical meanings in other situations.
The examples given in the text of the article reflect a sample that covers the whole class of real and potential copulative sentences in a sermon. The results obtained and methods applied can be used in determining the informative features of utterances and texts which can separate discourses.

Keywords:  copulative sentences, a discourse, a Russian Orthodox sermon, asubjectivation,
a speaker, an utterance.

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For citation:  Burtsev, V. A. (2020). The use of copulative sentences in the discourse of a Russian orthodox sermon in the context of the speech act. Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki, 1, 103-114. (In Russ.).

Pages:  103-114