Research Article

A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas

Number: 45 June 7, 2021
  • Olga Gilyazova
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A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas

Abstract

The article addresses the relationship between open and closed texts. The aim of the study is to analyze the specifics of relationship between the open and closed text in the general context of communication between the author and the reader. While supporting mainly U. Eco’s concept in our article, we furnish it with the analysis of four approaches of openness/closedness, which we have singled out. Openness/closedness is conceptualized, firstly: as an ontological perspective of the opposition between the communication parameters: The text-as-process and text-as-outcome; secondly, as interpretation procedures that are common for the articulation of all texts, regardless of their form and contents; thirdly, as the ontological and technological potential of works’ physical unfinishedness that invite the recipient to co-authorship (for example, ‘the work-in-movement’ and hypertext); fourthly, as the ability of a text to provoke multiple or unambiguous interpretations. We also demonstrate that the way of text’s functioning is determined not only by the addressee's attitude to it, but text itself, in return, stimulates this attitude, predisposing to it by its specificity (as informative or artistic, kitsch or art, hypertext or linear text, digital or analog). However, as we explain in the conclusion, the dialectic of openness/closedness can affect the distinctness of these dichotomies: The text can use its openness manipulatively, which turns it into a closed text.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Creative Arts and Writing

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Olga Gilyazova This is me
Russian Federation

Publication Date

June 7, 2021

Submission Date

September 7, 2020

Acceptance Date

November 3, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Number: 45

APA
Gilyazova, O. (2021). A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 45, 191-208. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.944022
AMA
1.Gilyazova O. A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas. SEFAD. 2021;(45):191-208. doi:10.21497/sefad.944022
Chicago
Gilyazova, Olga. 2021. “A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship Between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, nos. 45: 191-208. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.944022.
EndNote
Gilyazova O (June 1, 2021) A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 45 191–208.
IEEE
[1]O. Gilyazova, “A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas”, SEFAD, no. 45, pp. 191–208, June 2021, doi: 10.21497/sefad.944022.
ISNAD
Gilyazova, Olga. “A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship Between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 45 (June 1, 2021): 191-208. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.944022.
JAMA
1.Gilyazova O. A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas. SEFAD. 2021;:191–208.
MLA
Gilyazova, Olga. “A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship Between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, no. 45, June 2021, pp. 191-08, doi:10.21497/sefad.944022.
Vancouver
1.Olga Gilyazova. A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas. SEFAD. 2021 Jun. 1;(45):191-208. doi:10.21497/sefad.944022

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