Address of implicatures in dramatic discourse

doi:10.26565/2227-8877-2021-94-01

Lilia Bezugla Department of German Philology and Translation at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7102-7337
Olena Novikova Department of German Philology and Translation at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1547-8264

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26565/2227-8877-2021-94-01

Keywords: addressing, Curth Flatow, dramatic discourse, implicature, horizontal communication, vertical communication

Abstract

The article analyses utterances with implicatures in the character speech in German dramatic discourse based on the play “The Money is in the Bank” by German dramatist Curth Flatow, which presents the situational type of dramatic dialogue and imitation of colloquial speech. Address of implicatures is the direction of the speaker's perlocutionary goal to convey the implicature to the addressee, depending on the level of communication. The speaker's orientation to the addressee in intending implicatures correlates with two levels of communication in dramatic discourse outside of its stage implementation: horizontal (communication of characters) and vertical (communication between the author and the reader). Depending on the communicative attitude of the speaker and the level of communication, the address of implicatures demonstrates five types. The first two types relate to horizontal communication, the third to vertical, the fourth and fifth suggest double intending of the implicature at two levels. The first type of address is the most frequent: in his or her utterance, character 1 (the speaker) conveys the implicature to the addressee / group of addressees (character 2 / characters 1, 2, 3 ...). The second type of address concerns indirect verbal communication at the level of horizontal communication: in his or her utterance, character 1 (the speaker) conveys the implicature not to the direct addressee (character 2), but to the indirect (character 3). The third type of address involves only vertical communication: the author conveys the implicature to the reader in the utterance of character 1, directed at character 2; there may be several target characters. In the case of the fourth type of addressing, a double intending of implicature occurs: character 1 (the speaker) conveys the implicature to character 2 (addressee) in his or her utterance, and at the same time the author conveys the implicature to the reader in the same utterance. The fifth type of address is also a double intending of the implicature, but with the involvement of the indirect addressee: in his or her utterance, character 1 (the speaker) conveys the implicature not to the direct addressee (character 2), but to the indirect (character 3), and at the same time the author conveys the implicature to the reader in the same utterance.

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