Conversational stylistics : conversational pragmatic perspectives

Abstract EN

Conversational pragmatics is a field of study that focuses on how people encode and decode conversation.

Sometimes linguistic expressions are perceived from the appropriately deep-rooted and conventionalized correlation of a certain form with a specific pragmatic meaning (conventionalized pragmatic expressions).

These expressions do not count upon expectations about the nature of the context; but others are not, i.e.

there should be a context.

This study aims at proving that stylistics plays a vital role in conversational pragmatics taking into account that conversation is a linguistic social communication.

Language use, as a result of stylistic choices, is a variety of effective connotative and denotative devices by which people think of contextually existing knowledge as a crucial component of encoding and decoding meanings.

It is hypothesized that certain stylistic choices reveal mutual (shared) knowledge that has a remarkable influence upon human communication.

The findings show that conversational pragmatics is a reflection of the correlation between stylistic choices and context.

An addresser who proposes an utterance to be inferred in a specific manner must also assume the addressee to be ready for providing a context that permits that interpretation to be captured because contexts work as motives for generating certain linguistic expressions (stylistic choices).

An incompatibility between the context anticipated by the addresser and the one used by the addressee may give rise to a misinterpretation and then leads to miscommunication.