Linguopragmatic aspects of fictional texts in English and Karakalpak languages

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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CHAPTER II. LINGUOPRAGMATIC APPROACH TO TEXT ANALYSIS 
IN MODERN LINGUISTICS 
2.1. The pragmatic intention “to attract the reader’s attention” in English and 
Karakalpak literary texts 
 Linguopragmatic approach puts forward the problem of pragmatic intention 
as one of the crucial means in the analyzing effectiveness of impact and perception 
of communication in the literary discourse. Pragmatic intention is defined as 
“verbalized in the text the addresser’s deliberate intention to exert influence on the 
addressee with the aim to cause some reconstruction in his/her world picture” [9, 
144]. Several types of PI (pragmatic intention) can be distinguished and the impact 
of each can vary in certain context. Consequently, the language means, structural 
and semantic features in the literary discourse are selected based on the type and 
impact of PI. Thus, these language units help to determine pragmatic intentions 
implicitly or explicitly in pragmatic analysis. So, the following types of PI are 
distinguished: - 
The pragmatic intention “to attract attention” (attention-compelling intention); -
The pragmatic intention “to interest the reader”; 
- The pragmatic intention “to exert an emotional impact”;
- The pragmatic intention “to activize knowledge structures” relevant to the 
conceptual information;
- The pragmatic intention “to stimulate the addressee’s creativity”;
- The pragmatic intention “to represent the conceptual world picture” [11,197]
We’ll try to analyze each of these pragmatic intentions based on analysis taken
from literary texts: 
This pragmatic intention is associated with the phenomenon of actualization, 
which has been discussed by many scholars B. А. Larin, R.Yakobson , I. V. Аrnold 

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and others). The most detailed analysis was done by the Prague linguistic school. 
Actualization is understood as the usage of language means which is perceived as 
unusual, deautomatic, and therefore it attracts attention of the reader [48,80]. There 
are some arguable points in the conception of the Prague linguists. In particular, the 
assertion that actualization is an end in itself seems to be very doubtful because it 
depreciates a priority role of a communicative aim. However, on the whole, the idea 
of “deautomatization” the notions of foregrounding, convergence of stylistic means, 
parallelisms as basic signals of conceptual information remain actual and significant 
for the present-day researches, especially in considering the problem of impact and 
perception. 
The means of “deautomatization” are mainly found on the surface layer of the text 
and characterized by various kinds of structural transformations, which serve to 
realize the pragmatic intention “to attract the readers' attention”. To these means we 
can refer various occasional transformations of words (simple, derivative and 
compound words), phraseological units and syntactical structures. So, the main 
device to realize this pragmatic intention is an occasionalism built on deviations 
from the norms of the literary language. The problem of the norm has received much 
attention among linguists. There are a lot of disputes, differences of opinions, 
controversies. In stylistics ii concerns the problem of stylistic devices. Some 
scholars regard stylistic devices as deviation from the literary norm, others consider 
that stylistic devices are based on the norm, intensify its typical structural and 
semantic properties, and promote them to a generalized level. 
The idea of the norm deviation is shared by the majority of linguists. It can be 
accepted here with some amendments. Firstly, in every concrete case deviations are 
characterized by different degrees of explicitness. Secondly, deviations are subjected 
to some regulations [37,50].
Any deliberate deviation from the norms attracts the addressee's attention, and 
gives rise to some stylistic effects, thus influencing the process of perception. The 
following may serve as an example: 
/ wanted death after that but death don’t come when you want it, it comes when 

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