Logic Questioned
The Communicative Act of Interrogation in a Distorted Poetic Space of Brodsky’s “Homage to Yalta”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977848 |
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| Authors | Ekaterina Schnittke (0000-0002-3051-418X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 105-130 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Russian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-9427 • E-ISSN: 1940-9419 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19409419.2009.10756740 |
| OpenAlex | W1969168482 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The paper examines communicative devices that contribute to a distortion of the poetic space in Brodsky’s Homage to Yalta. First, it is shown that the effect of distortion builds up in the introduction by logical and semantic manipulations. The primary focus of the paper is to examine how the distorted perspective of the introduction is sustained throughout the poem by constructing a communicative act of interrogation that frustrates reader’s expectations. The study is carried out within the conversational-analytic framework. It analyzes sequencing of question-answer adjacency pairs in presenting the testimonies of different witnesses. The textual data is evaluated against the background of question-answer strategies in real-world institutional communication along two axes: that of answering strategies, specifically turn and role allocation in answers, and that of questioning strategies. It is argued that choosing one strategy over another in signaling the interrogator’s question--who never shows up in the interrogations except in reverberations of his questions in the witnesses’ answers--is an important tool in establishing power configuration patterns. Moreover, questioning strategies are shown to progressively diverge from what we expect to see in the interrogation reaching the level of communicative inadequacy in the last testimony
Epistemology · Focus (optics · Interrogation · Linguistics · Perspective (graphical · Poetry · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Artificial Intelligence
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| Highly cited | No |
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