A pragmatic view of the poetic function of language
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Alessandro Capone
Abstract
In this paper, I try to expatiate on the poetic function of language on the basis of considerations by Jakobson and Waugh. I try to bring in the consideration that pragmatics plays an important role in elucidating the poetic function of language. Contextualism allows us to interpret a poem: referents must be fixed or need not be fixed due to the requirements of the discourse; citations are brought in through pragmatic ways; polyphony is achieved by taking into account the context of previous analyses of a poetic text; the vicinity of a certain word, or concept or line is likely to affect the interpretation of a certain expression; the poetic text can take different forms, from graffiti to discourse at the market place, to discourse between lovers. All these forms of poetic text would not exist if the notion of poetry did not include the idea of semantic/pragmatic compression which is matched, in interpretation, by expansions.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- A pragmatic view of the poetic function of language
- “Little music” or “rough music”?: Ishion Hutchinson, modernist poet
- How binding and bonding communicate interpersonal meanings in a children’s museum to address Jordan’s energy and water challenges
- Autocommunication in crib speech and private speech
- From action to performative gesture: the Slapping movement used by children at the age of four to six
- An important chapter in the history of semiotics: inference from signs in Philodemus’ De signis
- Meaning and the evolution of signification and objectivity
- Shielding the learned body: a semiotic analysis of school badges in New South Wales, Australia
- The primordiality of representation
- The existential signs through the works of Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye
- Paratexts and the reframing of a classic: Korean translations of the Japanese Women’s Analects
