Speech implications and description of human mental states

Abstract

The article is based upon the investigation of implicatures, that are used in the books of modern Russian and British writers. Moreover it is touched upon how interlocutors interpret speech intentions of each other. At the very beginning of the article two terms involved into the investigation are distinguished strictly. The first is "mental state" and the second is "conversational implicature". The basic idea is that the individual’s psyche can be transferred within his manner of speech. With help of examples from the texts the authors manage to go beyond the dialogical communication and appeal to those situationally meaningful sense, which are transmitted through the description and expression of human mental states.

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Keywords: implicature, human mental states, the intention, the pragmatic the literature text

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Javetskij A., Kazmenko A.D. Speech implications and description of human mental states [Elektronnyi resurs]. Âzyk i tekst = Language and Text, 2014. Vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 12–16. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

Information About the Authors

A. Javetskij, PhD in Philology, Ph.D, associate professor of the Linguodidactics and Cross-cultural Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, e-mail: alexyavetski@inbox.ru

A. D. Kazmenko, student of the Linguodidactics and Cross-cultural Departmentof the Faculty of Foreign Languages Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, e-mail: Alina_kazmenko@mail.ru

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