Different Implicit Means in the Hinting Strategy. To the Problem of Implicitness in Modern Linguistics (On the Material of English Language)

• Main Author: Hnatiuk Lubomira
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National Uniersity 2016-08-01
• Series: Lìngvìstičnì Studìï
• Subjects: intertextual; extra-linguistic; pragmatic presuppositions; conventional implicature; pragmatic implicature; implicitness; effectiveness; the Hinting Strategy
• Online Access: http://www.linguisticstudies.org/home/linguistics-studies/volume-31/issues-of-text-linguistics-discourse-studies-and-discourse-analysis/different-implicit-means-in-the-hinting-strategy-to-the-problem-of-implicitness-in-modern-linguistics-on-the-material-of-english-language

Background: The investigation of implicitness as the core of the Hinting Strategy is the current research issue because of the growth of interest in the modern linguistics to the effectiveness of interpersonal interaction. Generalization of various implicit means in communicative material which determine the effectiveness of interpersonal communication under conditions of interpersonal interaction allows to develop the appropriate models of their practical application. Purpose: The purpose of the analysis is to determine the basic differences between presuppositions and implicatures, qualifying and classifying features of the different types of implicit means. Results: The implicit information with all types of presuppositions, such as intertextual, extra-linguistic, pragmatic, as for the reference to reality is crucial to understand the illocutionary forces of indirect illocutions. The lack of information on indirect illocutions leads to communicative deviations. Different implicit means are called by different speech situations. It depends on how the speaker conveys the illocutionary force of an utterance. In hinting strategy, the speaker's meaning and the sentence meaning come apart in various ways, therefore it is important in such case to pay attention to contextual assumptions. These assumptions rather than the content of the utterance affect the appropriate interpretation. The notion of implicature as the powerful pragmatic means of interpersonal communication is considered to be one of the most important implicit means of the interpersonal interaction. The study of the functional and pragmatic peculiarities of implicit information has proved the connection between effectiveness of interpersonal interaction and the indirectness, obliquity. In the Hinting Strategy the meaning is manifested not only in the content of conversation but also in the way conversation is managed and structured by its participants. Therefore, the speaker's utterance meaning is quite different from the sentence meaning. In this respect both pragmatic and conversational implicature as well as semantic and pragmatic presuppositions should be taken into account. Discussion: New prospects of investigation of different types of presuppositions and implicatures deal with a number of national and cultural peculiarities of implicit discourse on the descriptive material of related and non-related languages in order to increase efficiency of cross-cultural interpersonal communication.