Speech actualization of the author’s egocentric pragmatic perspective in business communication texts (as exemplified by the German-language text type “job application”)

Goncharova Evgenia

The article analyzes the unity of speech signals of the author’s egocentrism in the German-language text type “Job Application”. This text type presupposes not only the necessary anthropocentric “agency” but also the highest degree of “subjectivity” of the utterance. Using the example of one text type, the authors identify specificities of expressing the author’s egocentric pragmatic attitudes in business communication texts written in the 1st person in order to satisfy the speech subject’s certain personal and social needs. Functional and distributional potential of the 1st person pronoun and its lexical and grammatical correlates for realizing the egocentric pragmatic perspective in the text integrity is characterized.

Keywords:anthropocentrism, egocentrism, agency of the utterance, subjectivity of the utterance, text type, pragmatic perspective, pragmatic focus, text formulating mode