TRANSCENDENTAL PRAGMATICS IN THE TOPOS OF THE HERMENEUTIC-LINGUISTIC-PRAGMATIC-SEMIOTICAL TURN
Keywords:
deliberative democracy, Socratic dialogue, discourse, linguistics, speech, marginal justification, perlocutionary, performative, semiotics, reconstructive pragmatics, transcendental pragmatics, universal pragmaticsAbstract
The subject of this article is pragmatics as a trend in modern philosophy and as a philosophical paradigm in the system of paradigmatic coordinates: being, consciousness, speech, as well as the place of such a pragmatics as a component of a broad trend in modern philosophy, which appears in the form of a hermeneutic-linguistic-pragmatic-semiotic turn, which is carried out in accordance with the transition from the philosophy of subjectivity to the philosophy of intersubjectivity. Pragmatics is a section of semiotics that deals with the use of language or the interpretation of signs together with the subject of this interpretation, therefore, speech is considered together with the subject of speech, that is, together with the speaker. The article also reveals the role of discourse in substantiating the truth of knowledge and the correctness of social norms. This makes it possible to overcome relativism and nihilism in the moral and ethical sphere, and also shows the role of discourse as a meta-institution of legitimizing social institutions and an integral part of deliberative democracy in modern society. In the structure of pragmatics, along with locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts, hidden perlocutionary acts are considered, aimed not at achieving understanding, but at the hidden goals of strategic action. Based on the substantiation of moral and ethical obligations, as well as social and legal norms the latent perlocutionary statements are also exposed as the very thing that Russian politics, ideology and propaganda rely on. This understanding becomes especially important in the context of Russian military aggression against Ukraine.
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