Communicative-Pragmatic Failure: Viewpoint of Young Ural Playwright

Abstract

The author’s reproduction of living dialogical speech in linguo-cultural context of the current time is considered on the material of the play “The Very Day” by the young playwright Yaroslava Pulinovich. It is noted that the Ural school of modern drama in Yekaterinburg under the leadership of Nikolai Kolyada, which representative is Y. Pulinovich, is characterized by the presence of established aesthetic convention. The core of this convention is a method of linguistic naturalism. Analysis of the dialogues of the play have led to the conclusion that a naturalistic reproduction of speech is provided in part by inclusions of obscene vocabulary, elements of the urban vernacular, jargon. The predominant method is the method of linguistic realism, covering the construction of cooperative and conflictual dialogs. The analysis highlights the types of replicas aimed at the development of communicative contact; the inextricable link between the social role and communicative position of speakers is confirmed. On the material of speech party of the heroine the interpretation of communicative-pragmatic failures is given, their causes are revealed. Taking into account the role hierarchy the internal family communication is considered. The destructive consequences of abnormal distribution of rights and responsibilities of regular communication partners are highlighted. Axiological content of the metaphor of the road appearing in the play final is revealed.

Keywords

• speech communication
• social role
• cooperative communication
• conflict
• linguistic naturalism
• communicative-pragmatic failure
• dialogue
• colloquial speech