Linguistic and mental scope of an artwork in ukrainian and american language culture
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https://doi.org/10.17162/au.v12i4.1239Keywords:
narration, metadiscourse, hermeneutics, Faulkner, linguistics, story, Honchar.Abstract
The aim of the article is to determine and carry out a comparative analysis of the linguistic and mental sphere of the literary work in Ukrainian and American language culture on the example of short stories. These are “Two Soldiers” by William Faulkner and “For a Moment of Happiness” by Oles Honchar. The following methods were used: hermeneutic analysis, close reading, cultural-historical approach, intertextuality technique, comparative method. The speech design structure of Faulkner’s short story is clear, devoid of additional artistic embellishments, the vocabulary is concise and performs pragmatic rather than aesthetic functions. Decoding available verbal markers contributes to a deeper understanding of the mental spirit of the literary text. The heroes’ worldview reflected the features of intuition as the philosophical method. Honchar’s short story about the linguistic and mental spheres of the organization has been subject to a strong artistic influence and psychologization. The format of the article reduced our focus to the lexical and semantic aspect of the linguistic and mental sphere of works. Promising areas of further research have been identified. First of all, it is necessary to supplement the lexical semantic analysis by generalizing syntactic stylistic observations of the discourse and metadiscourse of short stories.Downloads
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