Linguistics, poetics, theater and drama

Abstract

The article analyzes the work of four authors who dealt wit h the application of Jakobson s model, presented in the text Linguistics and Poetics (1966), to theatrical art. Jakobson s division and processing of the six functions of language (emotive, referential, poetic, phatic, metalingual, conative) undergoes the necessary changes and modifications once when instead to poetry, it tries to be applied to reading the theater. Roman Ingarden, Anne Ubersfeld, Vladan Svacov and Manfred Pfister have tried to apply Jakobson s model in various ways and in different directions, often by incorrectly applying his analysis exclusively to the drama component of the theater, thus completely neglecting the performance. At the same time, a more detailed analysis of their models shows the plethora of possible applications of Jakobson to the language of the theater, as well as the perspective of the further elaboration. The article concludes with the identification of potential, more adequate loci for the application of Jakobson s theories, focusing primarily on the poetic function.