SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF CONFLICTOGENIC UNITS IN A LITERARY TEXT

Abstract

The literary text is a reflection of people's real lives. One of its aspects is the conflict of interests of individuals and entire groups. In this article, the author explores the conflictogenic units of a literary text in terms of their semantic and pragmatic potential. Conflicting units can include words, phrases, sentences, and sometimes entire texts. Conflictogenic units are units containing insults, threats, ridicule and other components that provoke a conflict situation, causing hostility, aggression or distrust on the part of the addressee of speech. Such conflict-causing units acquire a special pragmatic significance in the context. They can express various intentions of speakers, while they have great potential and are able to display a wide range of emotions, usually negative. The author of the article explores the units of literary text at different levels. The article analyzes such contexts in which these multilevel units are associated with the expression of negative emotions. As the analysis shows, conflictogenic units reflect a variety of negative emotions. Often, conflictogenic speech does not allow one of the participants in communication – and sometimes both – to realize the main tasks of effective communication. This makes it difficult to exchange information, worsens the perception of interlocutors of each other, prevents the development of a common strategy of interaction and a constructive way out of difficult situations. The study of conflictogenic units is necessary, as it allows us to identify their range, functions and, in the future, contributes to the development of strategies and tactics of cooperative communication, which contributes to ensuring the communicative security of an individual and society as a whole.