Author: Georgiev, Mincho
Title: Ritualniiat diskurs
Description: Sofiia, Izd. Drinov, 2007. orig.wrappers. 20x14cm,, 102 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Bulgarian text. Includes an English abstract: "Ritual Discourse" ["This essay challenges the scientific presentation of ritual in its terms for text and communication. Our thesis is that the ritual is a discursive union of creation and communication. The analysis touches upon other connected questions such as 1) cultural laws are not only those of communication; 2) both non-verbal and verbal speech (discourse) have a function which is creative as well as communicative; 3) binary opposition is a basic principle for structuring a universal dictionary of symbolic meanings; 4) the attributive syntagm (non-verbal and verbal) is the smallest syntactical unit of discourse as a meaningful whole...this essay also describes the structure of the creative discoursive situation as different from the communicative one and establishes their semiotic correspondence; the semiotic positions subject of a creative act (good- white and black-evil magic) and object of a creative act (object of use) in the ritual creative discursive situation correspond to the sender and receiver of a message in Roman Jakobson's Linguistics and Poetics..."]

Keywords: Semiotics, Semantics, Linguistics, Ritual, Nonverbal, Communication, Discourse Analysis, ,