THE INFLUENCE OF THE VOICE OF A PARTICIPLE ON PRAGMATIC PERCEPTION OF AN UTTERANCE

Abstract

At present, the cognitive-pragmatic orientation of the study of language, its operation and perception occupies one of the main roles in linguistic research. In this regard, this paper aims to determine the relationships between the pragmatic perception of an utterance and the use of the active and passive forms of the participle, along with the probability of its substantivation. The study employed corpus analysis, descriptive approach, and comparative analysis of utterances. The obtained results show that when the active voice is used, the presence of a syntactic subject of action, the role of which is played by the semantic subject, is not important for the pragmatic perception of the whole utterance. At the same time, in the passive voice, the semantic object of action, standing in the position of the syntactic subject, is important for pragmatic perception, while the actual semantic subject plays a secondary role. The passive voice of the participle is characterized by the following: the impossibility of excluding the syntactic subject and the absence of the process of substantivation put the semantic object in the center of the utterance in such a way that the real actor (semantic subject) has no influence on the pragmatic composition, which can be used to achieve the speaker’s hidden communicative goals.