THE VIOLATION OF GRICEAN MAXIMS IN RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE: A CASE STUDY OF THE GERMAN AND RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHRASEOLOGY
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This article presents a case study of a comparative analysis of religious phraseological units in the German and Russian phraseology as an illustration of the violation of two Paul Grice’s maxims: the maxim of quality and the maxim of quantity. Discourse as a linguistic phenomenon is discussed here according to the St. Petersburg linguistic school’s interpretation of discourse and discourse analysis. Religious discourse is a semiotic system that consists of the following types: appraisive-informative, designative-systemic and incitive-prescriptive. The article focuses on German and Russian phraseological units conveying features of religious communication that occurs within the incitive-prescriptive type of discourse and uses them to illustrate the violation of Grice’s maxims of quantity and quality. Grice’s cooperative principle is irrelevant to religious discourse when dealing with such phenomena as, for instance, glossolalia. Phraseological units can reflect characteristics of the discourse they originate from. Discourse Linguistic Multi-layered Analysis (DIMEAN) allows us to track the origin of a phraseological unit (religious discourse → religious communication → word group → phraseologization → phraseological unit) and thereby identify its discursive characteristics. This is the first time the DIMEAN model has been used to analyse Russian and German phraseological units with religious discursive characteristics.
Keywords:
religious discourse, incitivprescriptive discourse type of religious communication, the maxims Grice’s, phraseological units
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