Kaminska M. Implicit Negative Evaluation in Modern English Dialogic Discourse: Cognitive and Pragmatic Aspects

The thesis focuses on the study of the speaker's implicit negative evaluation in modern English dialogic discourse. The research is aimed at a complex study of the cognitive and communicative specificity of the phenomenon under investigation The paper considers the speaker’s implicit negative evaluation in close correlation with psycho-emotional and socio-cultural aspects of its realization. The fragments of dialogic discourse taken from contemporary British and American fiction, feature films and series serve as the material of the study. The cognitive and pragmatic approach outlines theoretical and methodological framework of the research. Thus, the implicit negative evaluation is defined as the mental and discursive interaction between the speaker and the addressee, in which the negative evaluation not formally expressed in the utterance by linguistic units, is expressed in its implicit meaning. The results of the research show that expression of the speaker’s implicit negative evaluation is realized in communication due to cognitive factors. Cognitive operations of referent situation re-perspectivization provide construal of the speaker’s implicit negative evaluation in the interaction. The paper defines dialogic re-perspectivization as a transformation of the referent situation image offered by a communicative partner to the one that conveys the negative attitude to this situation implicitly. This transformation is performed by a series of simple and combined cognitive operations.