Manipulation in the direct and indirect speech

Tyumen State University Herald. Humanities Research. Humanitates


Release:

Vesntik TSU. Philology. 2014

Title: 
Manipulation in the direct and indirect speech


About the author:

Ekaterina V. Averyanova,
Cand. Philol. Sci., Cand. Cult. Sci., Professor of French Philology Department, Institute for Humanities, Tyumen State University

Abstract:

This article discusses the role of direct and indirect speech in manipulation in the hagiographic texts of Old Church Slavonic and Latin mid XV-XVII centuries. As a rule, the manipulation is presented in the form of direct speech in the Orthodox hagiographic discourse, while in the Catholic hagiographic discourse it is both direct and indirect speech. This suggests that the Orthodox hagiographic discourse is dominated by explicit statements of heterogeneity in its labeled form, and the Catholic hagiographic discourse — in an unmarked form. Moreover, the Orthodox hagiographic discourse is characterised by the representational communication strategy, while the Catholic hagiographic discourse — by narrative communication strategy. The presence of shifters in the Orthodox hagiographic discourse has a manipulative effect on the reader, whereas their absence in the Catholic hagiographic discourse highlights the awareness of the reader. If the Orthodox hagiographic discourse uses the authority of someone else’s words, the Catholic hagiographic discourse is based on the “internally persuasive word”.

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