Communicative and pragmatic premises of the Slovak interactional stylistics

The study deals with interactional stylistics viewed as a discipline based on its own pragmatic potential (while consideration has been given to addressee and to speech comprehensibility and clarity even earlier). This pragmatic potential in its developed form represents, in the context of contemporary methodology of humanities, a contribution to restructuration of stylistics. The discipline, viewed from this point, receives a new function: to observe and interpretationally explain, firstly, the meaning of interactions between agents in the observed communication acts and, secondly, the effect that this interaction brings. In the centre of interactional stylistics is the human (anthropocentrism), who through his communication acts negotiates about the contents of interactions, regarding own interests, as well as cultural, social and historical conventions. The meaning of used expressions and the overall sense of such interactions thus emerge in the context of communicational events, based on the communication subjects’ coping with surrounding reality through assimilation and accommodation.