ORDINARY CONSCIOUSNESS: ITS BOUNDS AND FORMS OF SPEECH

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the problem of two types of ordinary consciousness – metalinguistic and poetic. Selected by R. Jakobson, metalinguistic and poetic functions of the language are considered with a focus on speaking and listening that allows you to select “speaker metatexts” (“narrow” = “definitive” and “wide” = “evaluative” presented by reflexives) and “listener metatext”. Special attention is paid to such little-studied speech fact as "meta-apologies", for which there are no conventional rules. The paper also raises the problem of studying the metatext (particulary metaevaluations) in academic speech.

Keywords

• ordinary consciousness (metalinguistic and poetic)
• an individual language
• language functions by k. buhler and r. jakobson
• metatext-narrow (definition) and metatext-wide (reflexive)
• meta-apologies
• poetic function of language from the speaker’s position and from the listener’s position
• metatext as “aftertext”.