Textual Dialogue from a Pragmatic Perspective: Literary Culture Discourse

Abstract

This research studies the textual dialogue from a pragmatic perspective. It includes theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part is concerned with the conceptual relation between the textual dialogue and pragmatics and it traces the pragmatists' views on dialogue and context. The practical part aims at making a diagram of dialogic discourse according to its contextual and cultural use, including the history of culture, and from which the cultural references are formed and represented by the cultural text. The other diagram includes the statement of textual system changing into a literary event and suggesting ways of its achievement, namely, to achieve the intentional visualization reference through the imaginative symbolic dialogue, on the one hand, and to organize the dialogue according to literary forms and then the symbolic intention through the oral and written dialogue, on the other hand. Finally, the study examines the aspect of expressive representation through the dialogues of the two texts: the cinematic and the digital, showing how these methods achieve pragmatic purposes. The study concludes with the following important findings: Textual dialogue is an interactive communicative form of literary or cultural discourse, according to which the latter transforms into a form of action that varies between the conception of symbolic formulation, the organization of the pragmatic space, the inferential intention and then the expressive representation; and in each event, it achieves specific pragmatic purposes.