The affective context in non-Cartesian pragmatics: a theoretical grounding  

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Kopytko, Roman

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 36 no. 3 (Mar. 2004), page 521-548.
Topik: Affect; Context; Relational Pragmatics; Cognition; Interaction; Non-Cartesian
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In view ofthe undeniable fact that linguistic–cognitive approaches to pragmatics have focused only on selected elements of the holistic, interactional context in which language users are immersed in their (linguistic) social interactions, there has gradually emerged the necessity to remedy this situation by suggesting more comprehensive frameworks for analyzing language use in its context (such as non-Cartesian pragmatics). The main objective ofthe present paper is to integrate the study ofcognition and emotion within the non-Cartesian paradigm of linguistic research. Such a project is an indispensable step towards the holistic investigation of interpersonal communication. Relational Pragmatics (a version ofnon-Cartesian pragmatics) is used as a framework for the integrative goal of this project. This paper offers a solution to some perennial controversies and debates in emotion research such as cognition vs. emotion, or rationality vs. emotion, and others. The most important ideas suggested in this article include the view ofcontext as ‘relation’ rather than ‘knowledge’, ‘situation’, or ‘text’; affect is also investigated as ‘relation’ and at the pragmatic-semantic interface as ‘text’. Among a number ofnew concepts the most crucial are ‘pragmability’ and ‘affectability’, which underlie the language user’s capacity to participate in (verbal) social interaction as a cognizing being, or Ens Cognoscens (EC). Ens Cognoscens is represented by way ofthe cognitive–affective–conative system, which interacts with its (inherent and acquired) pragmability and affectability; moreover, the defocused EC is socially distributed and socially constructed to a considerable extent. Finally, the notion of‘affectability’ is analyzed in terms of‘affective reference’ and ‘affective relational system’.

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