Pragmatic
المؤلف:
Bronwen Martin and Felizitas Ringham
المصدر:
Dictionary of Semiotics
الجزء والصفحة:
P103
2025-06-23
365
Pragmatic
Contrary to the meaning allotted to pragmatic in the English language, semiotic theory uses the term with the meaning given to it in French, that is, as relating to action, to practical doing. Accordingly, the two fundamental dimensions of narrative are termed one pragmatic and the other cognitive. The pragmatic dimension refers to external, physical events such as killing a giant, catching a thief or digging a flower bed. The cognitive dimension, on the other hand, relates to internal mental activities such as knowing, convincing, deceiving, etc. The importance attached to each dimension varies according to the nature of the discourse. In adventure stories, Treasure Island for example, it is the pragmatic dimension that dominates, whereas in legal discourse it is the cognitive.
In recent years attention has been focused on a third dimension of narrative known as the thymic dimension. This relates to feelings of euphoria or dysphoria (i.e. pleasant or unpleasant) experienced by the actors. These feelings can be correlated with the stages of a narrative programme. They can, for example, describe a state of disjunction or conjunction with an object of value. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's disjunction from Romeo, the object of her desire, takes shape in her despair giving rise to her suicide.
See also cognitive and thymic.
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