THE POSTULATE OF IMPOSSIBILITY OF SENSELESS TEXT IN THE LIGHT OF CREATIVE LINGUISTICS


2016. № 1 (7), 99-110

N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

Abstract:

The work considers linguistic, lingual-pragmatic and general semiotic conditions of forming of sensibility in literary utterance, which does not have the possibility of trying to find the sense within the framework of models of language standard functioning. The work treats text in this aspect as communicative situation in the field of speech interaction “author” — “reader”. The study proves that addressee’s / reader’s reception has certain potential in completion of sense “lacunae” and in comprehension of language and text deviation within the framework of fictional model offered by an author as well as outside this framework. The foundation of such approach is interpretation of “sense” as a function not of an author but of a reader$ as a function not of a proposition, but a propositional set; as a conversational implicature of specific kind. On this basis we postulate impossibility of senseless text. We also propose gradation of senselessness (in what sense the senselessness exists): ontological, logical, semiotic, epistemological, semantic, grammatical, pragmatic senselessness etc. I.e. an utterance can be senseless on the one level of reception, and quite sensible on the other
level. The study exposed three types of the conditions forming impossibility of senseless text in the field of reader’s reception in the whole: pragmatic, semiotic and cultural ones. It enables in turn to postulate specific interpretation of the category of “artistry” as such property / characteristic of a text that eliminates the very possibility of senselessness. Text as anti-entropic substance always opposes to chaos and senselessness of the reality, if even it is apprehended like senseless substance as a rough approximation.