Human relations in 19th-20th century Russian literature 3202-2SMR1O8Z
Issues in interpersonal communication, around which this seminar revolves, are viewed as a motif, an element of the world image in literature and in terms of (Bakhtin's) dialogue relations. Analyses undertaken are concerned not only with communicative situations and relations between character presented in literary works but also with speech acts emerging at various levels in the works' structure as well as dialogue relations between literary works. Study material embraces works by prominent Russian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries (Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov) as well as works of Polish and world literature that represent in-depth studies of the problems of achieving understanding, and particularly the associated difficulties that sometimes make understanding impossible. Verbal and non-verbal aspects of characters' behaviour are analysed from a pragmatic and linguistic viewpoint but also as actions that are liable to moral evaluation. Particular attention is given to silence in speech, its varieties and role as a communication-oriented behaviour that is the polar opposite of the word.
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