Original scientific paper

Pragmatic dimension of the text

Mirna Velčić

Abstract

The paper aims at explaining the relationship between text categories such as
context, sense and subject. It is focused on the problem of “framing”. The examples of different text frames referring to informal conversation, formal speech and discourse giving instruction are analysed. It is emphasized that the metatext which appears to frame spoken or written contents should not be perceived as formal-linguistic phenomenon. It happens at every moment of the text in process, be it realised at the explicit or implicit level. The pragmatic dimension could not be divorced from the language in use. This stresses that texts are crucially dependent on both social and linguistic forms of sense making.

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Hrčak ID:

184077

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/184077

Publication date:

15.12.1986.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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