Actualization of Non-Verbal Communication Aspects in the Works of O. Potebnya in Focus of Ukrainian Live Speech (Based on the Illustrations from S. Rudansky’s Poetic Discourse)

Abstract

The scientific heritage of O. Potebnia contains the origins of the modern theory of non-verbal communication. In the system of the scientist’s linguistic views the main parameters of non-verbal communication are highlighted and characterized in terms of their origin, formation and development, role in the language ontology. The article considers the parameters of non-verbal communication based on the actualization of the system of human sense organs that can act together producing peculiar images, stirring imagination, language ornament patterns, modelling a relevant linguistic worldview. S. Rudansky’s tall tales reflect Ukranian live speech, they are an important source, in particular of the national spirit reconstruction and the specific character of using non-verbal means of communication.