Sztuka i komunikacja: o pragmatycznych aspektach komunikacji artystycznej
Art and communication: on the pragmatic aspects of artistic communication

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article concerns aesthetic and artistic communication. The author assumes that many theories of social communication, as well as pragmatic theories, do not take into account language activities and discourses, the purpose of which is to evoke an aesthetic experience in the recipients. The author refutes such a view, presenting an alternative concept that aesthetic and artistic discourses meet the basic conditions of social communication: they rely on influencing through information; they are intentional; they are realized in interactions at the macro-social level within representative communication. The functionalist theory of culture by Bronisław Malinowski and the concept of aesthetic values by Ivor A. Richards will justify this approach to artistic communication. The author examines artistic discourses due to their synchronic and asynchronous character and proposes a typology of this type of discourses, illustrating particular types with examples from fiction.

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