INTENTIONALITY OF AUTHORIAL MIND AND EFFECTS IN COMMUNICATION

The problem of intentionality of author’s mind and its decoding is integrative for many contemporary sciences — philosophy, psychology, pragmatics, stylistics. The success in communication depends on the correct decoding of the author’s intention by the addressee, because communication is understood as a mutually creative process. The article shows the role of deverbalization and its eff ects in communication on the example of the phenomenon of silence. There are a number of contemporary concepts, in which deverbalization is seen as a process of degradation of modern speech culture, accompanied by the reduction of vocabulary and psychological problems, which naturally can lead not only to the impoverishment of linguistic personality, but also to the primitivization of communication, as well as to the decline of culture. We approach the problem of silence and deverbalization from a diff erent perspective. Silence is seen as an intentional task of the author, who, by consciously refusing to speak his thoughts, gives the reader the freedom to interpret what is said. Silence performs various artistic functions, which in this article are examined on the example of the novel “The Damned Yard” by Ivo Andrić. But silence plays a serious role in modern media culture as well, creating a special crossword writing, in which implicitness is no less important than verbalization.