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  • May 13, 2019
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COMPENSATORY EFFECT OF PRAGMATIC ADJUSTMENT IN INTERPRETATION OF GARY LARSON’S MULTI-MODAL TEXTS

Abstract

The article examines the peculiarities of interaction of verbal and visual modules as components of a coherent multi-modal message. The study is based on the cartoonist Gary Larson’s multi-modal texts, which have been previously examined exclusively in the context of humorous discourse. The analysis has identified non-typical compensatory effects, which occurred during pragmatic adjustment. The authors suggest their own interpretation of this phenomenon. Relying on the findings the paper introduces a modified model of pragmatic interpretation, which considers the specificity of multi-modal integration of verbal and visual modules.

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Author information

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Grebenev

Pushkin Leningrad State University

Antonina Yur'evna Shayuk

Pushkin Leningrad State University

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Publication history

  • Received: February 28, 2019.
  • Published: May 13, 2019.

Keywords

  • теория релевантности
  • мультимодальный анализ
  • специальные концепты
  • эмерджентные атрибуты
  • прагматическая юстировка
  • компенсаторный эффект
  • relevance theory
  • multi-modal analysis
  • ad hoc concepts
  • emergent attributes
  • pragmatic adjustment
  • compensatory effect

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