“Sense as event”: New studies at the interface between semantics and pragmatics

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The review is devoted to two scholarly works edited by Suren T. Zolyan — 2024 collective monographs on semiotic modeling in linguistic and social practices. They pose and address the problem of sense-production and sense-interpretation in text as a single operational procedure for correlating social and communicative contexts. The main goal and novelty is to describe in dynamics the interface between semantics and pragmatics of linguistic constructions in text and context. The first book (“Dynamics of sense: Deep semiotics and stereometric semantics”) is devoted to semantics, or more precisely, the transition from text to semantics, and the object of the second book (“Pragmasemantics and philosophy of language”) is pragmasemantics, that is, the pragmatic dimension of semantic processes. The concept proposed by the authors allows us to overcome inconsistencies in the understanding of pragmatics: the pragmatics of the speaker vs. the pragmatics of the listener; pragmatics as a philosophical vs. linguistic discipline; the pragmatics of the text vs. the pragmatics of discourse; pragmatics as what is said (explicitly expressed) vs. pragmatics as what is implied in what is said.

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V. V Feshchenko

Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vladimirfeshchenko@iling-ran.ru
Moscow, Russia

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