UDC

81.119

Authors

Evgeniya A. Murashova
Chekhov Institute (Branch), Rostov State University of Economics;
ul. Petrovskaya 68, Taganrog, 347900, Rosovskaya obl., Russian Federation;
e-mail: shenetschka@rambler.ru

Abstract

This article presents an attempt of linguopragmatic interpretation of one of the texts of the nuclear zone of the early 20th-century epistolary Cossack discourse: Ataman P.N. Krasnov’s letter dated 24 July 1918. The author has developed an algorithm of linguopragmatic interpretation that reveals individually and conventionally conditioned features of positioning the sender (in this case, Ataman P.N. Krasnov) in relation to the objects and subjects that he presents (including the receiver, M.V. Rodzyanko). In addition, this algorithm clarifies and empirically confirms the features of the contentsemantic space of the letter, as well as the wide linguocultural context of its creation. The suggested linguopragmatic interpretation is based on the analysis of the projections of referential relations and the originating in them pragmatic meanings actualized by the sender of the text. In this regard, as a central pragmatic coordinate system of the communicating subject (Ataman P.N. Krasnov) and the result of his communication (letter of 24 July 1918), the author introduces a system of six referential bases (deictic, evaluative, emotive, contact, regulative, and question subject-marked references). The sequence of actualized reference markers of various types is analysed separately and at the global level (as a single unit), with a so-called macro-reference forming as a result, determining the general line of analysis of the pragmatic background of the letter. In addition, during the linguopragmatic interpretation of the letter, the author identifies an actualization hierarchy of certain reference types and functionally organizes and reduces the analysis of pragmatic meanings as applied to this textual reality.

Keywords

Ataman P.N. Krasnov, linguistic pragmatics, linguopragmatic interpretation, epistolary Cossack discourse of the early 20th century

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