Gesture, ostension, and relevance. Pragmatics of semantic gesture

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378068%3A_____%2F24%3A00602000" target="_blank" >RIV/68378068:_____/24:00602000 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/uuid/uuid:64132505-0318-4030-b627-b7db7ec33b72" target="_blank" >https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/uuid/uuid:64132505-0318-4030-b627-b7db7ec33b72</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.58756/s7348527" target="_blank" >10.58756/s7348527</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gesture, ostension, and relevance. Pragmatics of semantic gesture

Original language description

Semantic gesture is considered one of Jan Mukařovský’s key conceptual contributions to the theory of (artistic) communication. It is also a contribution that is still commented on and further expanded upon today. As a semantic-synthetic principle of dynamic unification of a work of art, the mechanism of semantic gesture defies reduction to pure intention, content or simply coded meaning. This paper develops the view that semantic gesture represents a pragmatic mechanism with potential for elaboration within the framework of a pragmatic theory of relevance. In the first part, it attempts to substantiate the view that semantic gesture exhibits a distinctly pragmatic character, as it is both (i) dependent on the under-determination of linguistic input and (ii) applicable outside the domain of artistic texts. The second part attempts to define the context of relevance theory as a suitable field for further exploration of semantic gesture beyond traditional semiological boundaries, especially by pointing out two types of dynamism and by relating the notion of semantic gesture to the pragmatic mechanisms of poetic effects.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60205 - Literary theory

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-07318S" target="_blank" >GA23-07318S: Czech Structuralism Between Poetics and Politics</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Slovo a slovesnost

ISSN

0037-7031

e-ISSN

2571-0885

Volume of the periodical

85

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

290-312

UT code for WoS article

001359564300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85210429575