WAYS OF COMPREHENSION OF IDIOMS EXPRESSING EMOTIONS THROUGH COGNITIVE PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLES
WAYS OF COMPREHENSION OF IDIOMS EXPRESSING EMOTIONS THROUGH COGNITIVE PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLES

Summary/Abstract: Idioms are controversial concerning their place within language. Conventional directions of language consider they lack “logic” or are some “anomalies” altering the universal language principles (Chomsky quoted in Hoffman &Honneck 1979:324). Newer directions of language claim that idioms may be valuable (Hoffman &Honneck 1979:324). Pragmatic theories bear a cognitive basis as “the cognitive theory of language use” refers to the “production, comprehension, storage, reproduction of discourse” (van Dijk 1977: 211-212). “Pragmatics” clarifies the connections between”the cognitive/conceptual systems and the conditions for the appropriateness of speech acts” (van Dijk 1977: 212). Context and emotions are related to one another (Bazanella 2004:57). “Deixis refers to all those features of language which anchor our utterances in the context of proximity of space and of time relative to the speaker’s viewpoint” (Lyons 1977:63, II). “Relevance theory postulates that attitude markers are used to describe the speaker’s attitude towards a particular situation” (Rosa E. Vega-Moreno 2003: 308). “Concepts need some pragmatic adjustment leading to a new ad-hoc concept which contributes to the truth conditional content and warrants the expected implications” (Rosa E. Vega- Moreno 2003: 320-321). The Cooperative Principle refers to how our utterances are “cooperative efforts and each participant in the conversation recognises in them a set of purposes” (Grice 1975: 45 quoted in Wilson &Sperber 2002: 585). We refer to Pragmatics and Truthfulness, Maxim of Manner and Idioms that express Emotions, Idiomatic Language of Emotion and Maxim of Quantity. “For a speaker to implicate something is for the speaker to mean something by saying something else”, which leads to a discussion about Conversational Implicatures (Green 2003:2).

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