Language representation of the literary subconcept “childhood” in Charles Dickens’s books

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Tekst Kniga Knigoizdanie-Text Book Publishing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.17223/23062061/28/3
V. Katermina, Y. Ivanova
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The article highlights the peculiarities of understanding the categories “literary concept” and “literary text” at the modern stage of language science development. The authors clarify the choice of the approach towards the analysis of literary concepts - from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, present a brief description of factors that influence the inner world of characters of Dickens’s books -the reflection of the social policy of England of that time. Employing a “semantico-cognitive” approach towards language analysis, the authors explain the main characteristics of the approach, define “cognitive interpretation” as a unique component of the “semantico-cognitive” method, which makes the analysis different from other approaches towards language study and gives an opportunity to achieve the most reliable results. The authors also describe peculiarities of implementing the “semantico-cognitive” approach, list additional methods used for working with the literary concept, mainly corpus linguistics methods: compiling of the corpus of texts, contextual analysis, compiling of concordance, qualitative analysis, descriptive method. The practical part begins with the description of results received via the semantic analysis of the subconcept “childhood”. During the analysis, a variety of semes has been identified; their hierarchy and percentage ratio are described. Further, the variety of semes is compressed into several cognitive characterisics by means of cognitive interpretation. The cognitive characteristics are the following: kindness, happiness, basis for life, blemish, unhappiness, game and study. The cognitive characteristics are organized in the form of fields of the subconcet “childhood”, where the most frequently verbalized, or pre-nuclear, one is “kindness”, and it is, presumably, the most important one for the author. All other characteristics are described in descending order, where “game and study” is the least frequently verbalized characteristic, it is of a backgound nature and is used for describing children’s routine. The graphic model describing the results of the research and its decoding are presented. The conceptual analysis is followed by examples from Charles Dickens’s books. The examples describe the cases of verbalization of different cognitive characteristics of the subconcept “childhood” that are parts of the context of the books Oliver Twist, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol, A Walk in a Workhouse. Contribution of the authors: the authors contributed equally to this article.
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狄更斯作品中文学子概念“童年”的语言表征
文章强调了在语言科学发展的现代阶段,对“文学概念”和“文学文本”这两个范畴的理解具有特殊性。作者从认知语言学的角度阐明了文学概念分析方法的选择,简要描述了影响狄更斯作品中人物内心世界的因素,反映了当时英国的社会政策。采用“语义-认知”方法进行语言分析,作者解释了该方法的主要特点,并将“认知解释”定义为“语义-认知”方法的独特组成部分,这使得该分析不同于其他语言研究方法,并为获得最可靠的结果提供了机会。作者还描述了实施“语义-认知”方法的特点,列举了使用文学概念的其他方法,主要是语料库语言学方法:文本语料库编制、语境分析、一致性编制、定性分析、描述性方法。实践部分首先描述了通过对子概念“童年”的语义分析得到的结果。在分析过程中,已经确定了各种各样的符号;描述了它们的层次结构和百分比比例。进一步,通过认知解释将语素的多样性压缩为若干认知特征。认知特征有:善良、快乐、生活的基础、缺陷、不幸、游戏和学习。这些认知特征以子概念“童年”的领域的形式组织起来,其中最常被口头表达的或前核的是“善良”,这可能是作者最重要的一个领域。所有其他特征都是按降序描述的,其中“游戏和学习”是最不常用的语言特征,它具有背景性质,用于描述儿童的日常活动。给出了描述研究结果的图形模型及其解码。概念分析之后是查尔斯·狄更斯作品中的例子。这些例子描述了“童年”子概念的不同认知特征的语言化案例,这些案例是《雾都孤儿》、《艰难时期》、《圣诞颂歌》、《济贫院漫步》等书的一部分。作者的贡献:作者对本文的贡献是平等的。
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