RELEVANCE OF THE REFERENCE AND REFERENTIAL MEAN WITHIN THE ANTECEDENT-ANAPHORIC COMPLEX WITH PURPOSE SEMANTICS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

Aim. Based on the content analysis of the transcripts of interviews with political leaders, the article aims to reveal the specifics of the resolutions of the substitute, to describe the factors that determine the choice of a reduced group, to substantiate the frequency of the complex discursive anaphora in the genre of political interviews. Methodology. Through the observations and the introspection methods based on linguistic modeling and transformation, in the course of the work, the article analyzed the means of re-nomination, organizing logical-semantic relations of antecedent-anaphoric complex (AAC) components with the semantics of the purpose - reduced nominal phrases, nominal and verbal phrases with anaphoric pronouns of different categorical correlations. Results. The specificity of the correlations of the antecedent and the referential means was established as the basis for the deployment of a complex discursive anaphora of the proposed-nominal type; the specifics of two options for resolving anaphora are described; the functional of referential expressions that form the propositional judgment of the antecedent into the grammatical cover of a purpose is revealed. The study revealed the facts and factors of violations of the structural cohesion of AAC components and situations of the mobility of the reference group as a part of the substitute. It has been established that the congruence of the semantic structure of the purpose and the AAC determines the discursive organic nature of the latter as a dismembered way of explicating judgments into statements about the purpose, and the peculiarities of the organization of the communicative meaning of the complex are most consistent with the speaker's pragmatic attitudes and the type of communication situation - a political interview. Research implications. Theoretical implication of the study is determined by the use of a cognitive approach to the analysis of political discourse, the identification of complex factors that ensure the congruence of the purpose semantic structure and the organization of the AAC, as well as the communicative intentions to «package» judgments. The practical implication of the work is in the possibility of including research materials in courses on discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics, as well as the use in the preparation of political discourse analysis textbooks (government-binding theory and generative semantics).

Keywords

• re-nomination
• complex anaphora
• referent
• antecedent
• substitute
• referential mean