title: The Problem of Subjectivity in a Discourse in Terms of Imperative Sentences
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Burtsev, Vladimir A.
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-01-29T09:44:36Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-29T09:44:36Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Burtsev V. A. The Problem of Subjectivity in a Discourse in Terms of Imperative Sentences. Vestnik SPbSU. Language and Literature, 2017, vol. 14, issue 4, pp. 567–582.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu09.2017.406
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8970
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article discusses the use of imperative sentences in the Russian Orthodox sermon. In such sentences, we observe the phenomenon of grammatizing their typical functioning which is a means of expressing the psychological state of the speaker. However, their use in preaching is characterized by the fact that the meaning of the utterance as that of a speech act does not depend on the locative activity of the speaker. This phenomenon is seen as asubjectivation, or the submission of the speaker, who acts as a bearer of someone else’s point of view that dominates him. The article studies the conditions of asubjectivation that regulate such submission. They include referential conditions: a) all non-confirmed sentence predications and sentential groups expressing them are referential irrespective of the speaker; b) referential properties of non-confirmed sentential groups are based on the fact that they can be replaced by other groups, as the meaning is conveyed not by the speech units but by their correlations; c) only specific expressions can be used to replace other units, and the meaning of non-confirmed sentential groups cannot be arbitrary. The article shows that asubjectivation is directly related to the fact that the language of the sermon is a discourse. The use of such sentences in a deictic mode, which is not possible in a discourse, shows the absence of asubjectivation. Asubjectivation seen in sentences that have an illocutive verb in their structure is explained by the performative hypothesis. The meaning of imperative sentences in a sermon is defined on the basis of peremptory rules of satisfaction and subjective justification. It has been found that as a result of asubjectivation, in a sermon, imperative sentences are used idiomatically — as an indirect request /piece of advice and cannot be used non-idiomatically as a requirement / order. Refs 42.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 14; Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: asubjectification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: saying
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: imperative sentence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: discourse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sermon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: speaking subject of an utterance
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: preconstruct
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: illocutionary meaning
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reference
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Problem of Subjectivity in a Discourse in Terms of Imperative Sentences
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 06-Burtsev.pdf
resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/8970/1/06-Burtsev.pdf
resources.format: Adobe PDF
resources.size: 714,72 kB