Pragmapoetics as Literary Philosophy
Pragmapoetics as Literary Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: „Pragmapoetics: A Theory of Two Contexts (Merilai 2001, 2003) is a study of figurative language usage as it informs literary texts.2 It also tries to contribute to our understanding of ordinary language usage. The term suggests a fresh disciplinary branch which is guided by the assumption that poetic speech constitutes the object of analysis above all for a theory of poetics considering data provided by linguistic pragmatics. Pragmapoetics links Jakobsonian poetics with general semiotics: the study of syntax, semantics and pragmatics with an emphasis on the latter. It is primarily, although contingently, based on analytic language philosophy which offers sound advantages regarding methodological rigour and transparency extending as far as the possible affirmation of the Kantian postulate of grounding the research in”[…]

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