Open AccessThe Lingual and Pragmatic Characteristics of Occasionalisms in the American Media Discourse
Author(s) -
O. T. Siredzhuk
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of vasyl stefanyk precarpathian national university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2349
pISSN - 2311-0155
DOI - 10.15330/jpnu.3.4.58-63
Subject(s) - relevance theory , linguistics , interpretation (philosophy) , meaning (existential) , relevance (law) , psychology , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , political science , cognition , neuroscience , law
In the article, the notion of an occasionalism was studied; its place and role in the media discourse were outlined. While analyzing occasionalisms according to the theory of relevance by D. Sperber and D. Wilson, the inferential processes in the interpretation of utterances containing occasionalisms were traced. Thanks to conducted analysis, the meaning of occasional units was inferred, the pragmatic characteristics of these units were described and the effects, which they produce in media texts, were singled out