scholarly journals Communication of Emotions by Characters in a Flash Fiction (Based on Short Stories by Thomas Mann)

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01006
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Akasheva ◽  
Nuria M. Rakhimova ◽  
Tatiana V. Emets
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Flash Fiction ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Text Interpretation ◽  
Text Cohesion ◽  
The Given

The paper is devoted to the issue of nonverbal explication of emotions in literary texts of a flash fiction. Nonverbal means of communication are studied in several directions. There are works reflecting this problem from the perspective of semiotics, linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. A number of scientists is engaged in lexical description of paralinguisms. The study of linguostylistic problems of paralinguisms in literary works presents a special interest. The appeal to this problem is explained by the fact that adequate interpretation of a literary text is impossible without the corresponding reader’s understanding of nonverbal means of emotional expression since this requires nontrivial intellectual operations and a certain breadth of knowledge. The study is based on the analysis of three short stories by a famous German writer Thomas Mann: Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1898), Tobias Mindernickel (1898) and Tristan (1902). The rationale of the study is caused by the immaturity of this subject in German. The novelty is defined by the study of paralinguistic units in literary texts of T. Mann. The purpose of the paper is to describe nonverbal means and to define their functional yield in a literary text. To achieve this purpose, the paper deals with continuous sampling methods, contextual analysis and interpretation. The study showed that Thomas Mann uses paralinguisms to describe the main characters generally applying characterizing, evaluation, text-forming and forecast functions. Paralinguisms ensure text cohesion, integrity of its perception and are always aimed to implement the author’s plan and create the fictitious world of a literary work and consequently, contribute to the expression of an idea and a subject. The materials of the given paper may be used in theoretical courses of German lexicology, stylistics and in practical classes on literary text interpretation.

scholarly journals THE UNDERSTANDING OF MEANING IN LITERARY LEARNING THROUGH SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

JURNAL TAHURI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Juliaans E R Marantika
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Literary Learning

The works of literature greatly contribute to a nation's characteristics and personality. Understanding a literary work means being able to grasp moral values ​​or messages that are useful for social life. However, understanding a literary text is not as easy as understanding a non-literary text. The main reason is that the literary text bound to several forming conventions such as the language convention, literature, and cultural conventions. To understand this, students must be trained through education and teaching. Literary learning which can produce a good understanding should prioritize the process to familiarize students with the conventions that bind literary works through heuristic and hermeneutic reading. The 2013 curriculum, requires a change in the paradigm of the teacher's thinking towards planning and implementing learning based on a scientific approach. The important point that should be understood by the teachers is literary learning, according to any curriculum, aims to provide literary knowledge understanding and appreciation to the students. It indicates that literary learning should be designed not only to improve literary knowledge but also to express the values that ​​contained. The application of semiotic analysis methods in literary learning including short stories or poetry can be adapted to the steps of teaching based on the scientific approach known as 5 principles, which are observing, questioning, exploring, associating, and communicating/presenting as required by 2013 curriculum. In this context, the expression of the meaning of literary texts is done through observing, reading, repeating, comparing texts (heuristic readings), and continued by exploring and tracing the meaning of texts (hermeneutic readings) and drawing conclusions as a whole

scholarly journals Cognitive Metaphor in the Work of L. S. Petrushevskаya

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. e3378
Author(s):  
Viktoria Vyacheslavovna Radchenko ◽  
Oksana Vasilievna Sizykh ◽  
Anastasiya Egorovna Alekseeva ◽  
Anna Sofronovna Starostina
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
Cognitive Metaphor ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Individual Style

The paper dwells on functioning of cognitive metaphor in the literary texts. The metaphor in literary text is the active creative mechanism. Many researches focused on the analysis of the development of metaphorical relations, images, concepts that evolve from myth to symbol. The metaphor in the literary text is not just a means of expression, but a way of thinking and knowing the world. The academic novelty of the paper consists in the study of the author’s perception of reality through conceptual images that expand the boundaries of the metaphorical space of the text. The study reveals the ways cognitive metaphors function in the short stories by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, also describing the author’s individual style, the manner of understanding reality, the peculiarity of author’s thought, her contribution to the development of metaphorization, and the expansion of the metaphorical space of the text. The author’s interpretation of already known symbols, images, concepts is of great importance. A substantive base that forms a metaphor in the work of Petrushevskaya is also relevant, together with the factors that influence the development of metaphorical relations, those events or phenomena that are an incentive for the development of a metaphor in the writer’s work. The paper identifies algorithms of metaphorical transformations, as well as metaphorical structure of cognitive metaphor, typical of author’s way of thinking and individual artistic style.  

scholarly journals POSITIONAL EMPHASIS IN THE MODERN LITERARY TEXT

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-291
Author(s):  
SVITLANA HALAUR ◽  
RUSLANA SHRAMKO ◽  
SVITLANA PEDCHENKO
Keyword(s):  
Information Content ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Text Information ◽  
The Given

The given article touches upon one of the most relevant in modern psycholinguistics problems of literary cognition of reality by the addresser and perception of his knowledge by the addressee. A positional emphasis has therefore been analysed as a productive way of regulating the reader’s perception of the text information. The research focuses on the relevant exposure of all the traits of lingual units’ actualization and on the further sustainable in-depth description of its linguistic techniques. The investigation grounds on up-to-date methods of literary texts’ analysis, particularly on lingual-poetic interpretation, regulatory structuring as well as on information-content one. The psycholinguistic experiment and the survey likewise the method of gradual scaling as its constituents revealed their productivity.

scholarly journals On the Functional-Communicative Aspect of Literary Texts

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1 (8)) ◽  
pp. 58-62
Author(s):  
Mariana Sargsyan
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
The Given ◽  
Common Function

The present article attempts to provide grounds for the idea that a literary text is first and foremost a means of establishing communicative links between the reader and the author. All linguistic units used in the text by the author are interconnected by a common function, i.e. promoting the awareness of the reader which, in its turn, contributes to the comprehensive perception of the given text.

scholarly journals COHESION SPECIFITY IN ELECTRONIC LITERARY TEXTS: SEMANTIC, VISUAL AND GRAPHICAL ASPECTS

2018 ◽  
pp. 190-198
Author(s):  
S. A. Kuchina
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
Adobe Flash ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Perception Process ◽  
Text Cohesion ◽  
Semantic Resources

The article deals with the cohesion specifity in electronic literary texts, which results from dual (verbal and non-verbal) structure of  electronic literary text. The research materials include several  electronic texts (based on different platforms and technologies such  as Adobe Flash, Scalar, HTML 5) that demonstrate the use of conceptually valid poly-code elements in their semantic structure.  The main methods of the research are general scientific methods,  such as monitoring and description in conjunction with the method of comparative analysis and complex linguistic and stylistic analysis of  literary text. As a result, the author concludes that the electronic  literary text cohesion on semantic level is represented in structural,  identical and indexing aspects. All of them are provided by verbal  and nonverbal elements of the electronic literary text. The semantic  unraveling of this or that main topic of the electronic literary text is  provided by the mental combination of verbal and visual elements in  recipient’s mind during the electronic text perception process. In this  case the poly-code paralinguistic elements enhance semantic resources of electronic literary text and emphasize its visibility.

The Architecture of Narrative Time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Wickerson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Temporal Experience ◽  
Religious Festivals ◽  
Summer Holiday ◽  
Narrative Time

Time matters to all of us. It dominates everyday discourse: diaries, schedules, clocks, working hours, opening times, appointments, weekdays and weekends, national holidays, religious festivals, birthdays, and anniversaries. But how do we, as unique individuals, subjectively experience time? The slowness of an hour in a boring talk, the swiftness of a summer holiday, the fleetingness of childhood, the endless wait for pivotal news: these are experiences to which we all can relate and of which we commonly speak. How can a writer not only report such experiences but also conjure them up in words so that readers share the frustration, the excitement, the anticipation, are on tenterhooks with a narrator or character, or in melancholic mourning for a time long since passed which we never experienced ourselves? This book suggests that the evocation of subjective temporal experience occurs in every sentence, on every page, at every plot turn, in any narrative. It offers a new template for understanding narrative time that combines close readings with analysis of the structural overview. It enables new ways of reading Thomas Mann, but also suggests new ways of conceptualizing narrative time in any literary work, not only in Mann’s fiction and not only in texts that foreground the narration of time. The range of Mann’s novels, novellas, and short stories is compared with other nineteenth- and twentieth-century works in German and in English to suggest a comprehensive approach to considering time in narrative.

scholarly journals National Corpus of the Russian Language (NCRL) in literary studies: practical application

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-83
Author(s):  
L.E. Tokatova ◽  
◽  
E.A. Belousova
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
National Corpus

Nowadays the analysis of literary text goes beyond its linear perusal, it requires its structural comprehension, correlation of primary and scientific interpretation. Modern automated information systems suggest wide opportunities for getting original scientific material. The article attempts to analyze the story «Crank» («Chudik») by V.M. Shuckshin in comparison with the writer’s other works by using the NCRL instrument. The notion «National Corpus of the Russian Language» is discovered as well as its purpose. While analyzing the composition, the following levels of analyses were taken into account — the text title and character’s names (their expressions), concepts, details, characteristics of literary world, intertextuality. The results of the given literary studies with NCRL can be later applied at Literature lessons at school and for different types of literary texts analyses

scholarly journals THE IMPORTANCE OF ARTICSIC DETAIL AS A FACTOR OF PROSE POETICALNESS IN THE SGORT STORIES OF THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AND CANADIAN WRITERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
O. YEMETS ◽  
A. ZAKHARCHUK
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Flash Fiction ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Emotional Effect ◽  
Poetic Function ◽  
Final Text

The article considers the role and functions of artistic detail in the contemporary short stories. The investigation involved the flash fiction stories by the American writers written after the year 2020 and several short stories by the outstanding Canadian writer Alice Munro. The aim of the research is determining the major devices of prose poeticalness in these texts and revealing the role of artistic detail in creating poeticalness.Prose poeticalness is defined as such property of a prose text which involves the priority of poetic function and envisages the introduction of poetical features into prose – stylistic convergence, phonetical repetitions, parallelism, rhythm. Stylistic convergence can be considered the most foregrounded device of poeticalness as it involves the accumulation of different stylistic devices which add expressiveness to each other (M.Riffaterre). Our investigation shows that convergences function in strong positions of texts- the initial or final text fragments. Artistic detail is the object or some feature of the object which acquires special importance in the literary text (V.A.Kukharenko). Artistic detail is usually associated with metonymy or synecdoche, but unlike these tropes, it embraces the whole text. In the flash fiction stories and the short stories by A.Munro the major artistic details are objects like a coin (L.Wilson), a brooch (A.Munro), a glove (D.Shea) or a feature of appearance like a bruise (S.Dybek). These details characterize people’s behavior, their dreams and aspirations. Therefore, they symbolize love, friendship, sympathy and give polysemantic character to the narration. Another result of our investigation is determining the metaphoric detail (G.Paley) in the description of the woman, the mother of the defendant. Thus, the emotional effect of the artistic detail is realized in the metaphoric similes comparing the woman to the faded flower. These artistic details in combination with stylistic convergence create the impression of the texts as modern parables. The theoretical novelty of our research lies in the analysis of artistic details from the viewpoint of poeticalnees as well as in revealing the significance of emotional effect for prose poeticalness.The prospects of further research lie in the investigation of poeticalness in other genres of modern prose.

scholarly journals Conceptual Metaphor «Human Being – Nature» In Literary Text: Pragmatics and Functions

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-71
Author(s):  
Anna I. Trubkina
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Fathers And Sons

The relevance of the study is determined by the anthropocentrism of the modern scientific paradigm of linguistics and the need to establish correlations of the constituents of linguistic consciousness and objects of the external world in the structuring and functioning of the conceptual metaphor in the literary text. Conceptual metaphor is a mental topological projection of interacting areas of linguistic consciousness and the surrounding world. The purpose of the article is to study the functional and pragmatic potential of metaphorical models built on the basis of the conceptual metaphor «Human Being – Nature» in a literary text. The material for the study was the literary texts of the novels of I.S. Turgenev’s “Rudin”, “Fathers and Sons”, “Smoke”, “Virgin Soil”, containing representative metaphorical micro and macro contexts. The complex of research methods includes the method of continuous sampling, deductive-inductive method, conceptual analysis, and the method of linguistic interpretation. The functions of metaphorical contexts, which are based on the conceptual metaphor Human - Nature, consist in the possibility of representing the inner world of characters, their general cultural potential, social status and origin; the use of metaphors in the speech of characters (external and internal) allows us to talk about the figurative perception of the world by these heroes, about the level of their emotionality and linguistic creativity, since metaphors are a kind of human thinking patterns. Analysis of the implementation of the conceptual metaphor «Human Being- Nature» in a literary text allows one to discover and describe the priority cognitive structures of the author’s linguistic consciousness and values inherent in the individual author’s picture of the world. Research prospects are in the possibility of identifying priority conceptual metaphors in the individual author’s picture of the world on the basis of literary texts in order to identify and describe the dominants of linguistic consciousness and the value picture of the world of a particular author

scholarly journals The Importance of Visual Reading for the Interpretation of a Literary Text

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Janja Batič ◽  
Dragica Haramija
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Education ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
Illustrated Text ◽  
Survey Sample ◽  
Visual Reading

In this paper, the two authors showcase the results of a research survey on the role of illustrations in the interpretation of literary texts. The survey sample included students of primary education and preschool education, who were given the poem Učenjak (Scholar) by Niko Grafenauer and asked to answer questions regarding the character’s personality and appearance, the literary space, and other factors. The first group of interviewees was given the poem illustrated by Lidija Osterc and the other the same poem illustrated by Marjan Manček. The results showed that the illustration had a significant impact on the message conveyed by the poem, particularly when the illustrator added the context by representing the character’s environment (which was not explicitly given in the text). Furthermore, the results showed the need for the comprehensive reading of an illustrated text, given that it is the interaction between the verbal and the visual that provides vital information necessary for the reader to understand the message of the dedicated literary work. 

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