Pragmatics of selected orientalisms in the discourse of contemporary Russian ultra-orthodoxy
Piotr Zemszał
Nicolaus Copernicus University in ToruńAbstract
The presented analysis of the pragmatics of orientalisms in the discourse of radical orthodoxy makes it clear that the pragmatic dimension of oriental borrowings depends on the context and subject matter of the speech. In the studied discourse, historical borrowings reveal their pragmatic potential mainly in isolation from historical narratives. They then become a signal of danger, a sign of the possible return of what was considered bad in historical experience. Exoticisms, on the other hand, become pragmatically expressive only when they are abstracted from narratives about the territories and cultures from which they originate and used in statements about territories and cultures to which the sender believes they do not or should not belong. In both cases, the texts studied clearly show that the ensconced oriental borrowings quite often are an expression of the sender’s worldview.
Keywords:
pragmatics, orientalisms, radical orthodoxy, discourseReferences
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