The peculiarities of the military themes explication in the lexical-semantic space of the latest British literary texts

Authors

  • Iryna Shainer Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка, кафедра іноземних мов для гуманітарних факультетів

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2018.3.7

Keywords:

lexical-semantic space, lexical-semantic group, lexical-thematic group, lexical-associative group, text

Abstract

The article contains an integrated linguistic analysis of the genre composing lexical units and structures in contemporary British fiction, namely in literary prose texts on military themes (TMT), on the basis of pragmatic-stylistic, pragmatic-discourse and interpretative approaches. The research aims at the study of the lexical-semantic space of the latest British prose literary TMT, with the focus on the peculiarities of the trinity of its expansion, which includes lexical-semantic, lexical-thematic and lexical-associative directions of the military themes (MT) explication.

The peculiarity of contemporary texts on military themes is a different degree of a war theme representation. It can be observed on the levels of macro-, meso- and micro-inclusions in the outline of a literary text. The leitmotiv idea (the problem of military conflicts and their destructive consequences) is encoded in the lexical structures thoroughly chosen by the author. The popularity of MT in the latest fiction texts is predetermined by the conflict actions taking place nowadays. Thus, from the pragmatic-discourse and anthropocentric points of view, the study of these fictional prose texts is extremely relevant given their lexical-semantic peculiarities.

The outlining of the lexical-semantic, lexical-thematic and lexical-associative groups contributes to the detailed analysis of the functional representation of the lexical structures in the literary text at the deep and surface levels. The results of the research open the new perspectives to the study of the lexical-semantic structure of British fiction of the beginning of the XXI century from the points of new scientific paradigms.

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Iryna Shainer, Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка, кафедра іноземних мов для гуманітарних факультетів

асистент кафедри іноземних мов для гуманітарних факультетів

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31.10.2018

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Shainer, I. (2018). The peculiarities of the military themes explication in the lexical-semantic space of the latest British literary texts. Synopsis: Text, Context, Media, (3(23), 66–78. https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2018.3.7

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No. 3(23) (2018)

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Linguistic analysis of artistic text

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