Article

Name: Mimesis and communicative action in poetic text

Authors: A. V. Vdovichenko

Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: The article is concerned with Plato’s main charge towards poets who are occupied with imitation (mimesis). They create visibility, ghosts, no concern with true being, and mislead listeners. Plato’s concept of poetry and other verbal activity is closely connected with the spontaneously stated «wordthought » concept. The direct connecting of a word with a certain value is emphasized. Hence, any verbal material becomes an imitation of an idea (or the reflection of a value), whereas the communicant makes actions in the imaginable communicative space during the natural communication process. The poetic text is not an exception. To use a verbal cliché (a word or a word combination) – means to force the addressee’s consciousness to change the state due to calling the memory of the situations in which these changes are usually reached. Aleksei Kruсhenykh’s poetic experiment (dyr bul schyl…) shows the total absence of imitation (an image of reality in its forms) as well as the obvious presence of communicative action. Therefore, a specific character of poetry is a specific character of the communicative action.

Keywords: Plato, poetry, imitation (mimesis), thought and word, value, communication action, communicative interpretation of poetic text

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