STYLISTIC FEATURES OF THE AUTHOR’S NARRATIVE IN THE NOVEL BY M. HADDON «THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME»

The article is devoted to the study of linguistic graphic means and the author’s narrative in M. Haddon’s novel «The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time». The subject of the research is a polycode artistic text, the object is the functions of graphic means of depicting reality and the features of the author’s narrative in the novel under study. The relevance of this work is determined by the increasing frequency of the use of polycode elements in works of modern literature, as well as the relatively small number of studies devoted to this topic. The main research method was contextual-interpretative, the essence of which is to study the text in different types of context based on the researcher’s interpretation of text categories and components. Iconic and paragraphemic elements are used in the text. Paragraphemic ones include font, indents, layout of the text on the page, uppercase or lowercase letters. According to the research, paragraphemic elements occur with a high frequency, express the subjective attitude of the character to the statement, indicate the type of connections of the selected text with the plot of the work, give an idea of the place of such a text in the general textual space. The iconic element — diagrams, drawings, pictures — serve as a supplement to the main textual description of the realities of the novel. Iconic elements remain incomprehensible without textual support. They, like paragraphemic elements, serve to attract the attention of the addressee, facilitate the perception of the text, and in some cases serve to further reveal the character of the protagonist. The representation of character language is at a somewhat primitive level, which serves for better implementation of the author’s idea. Polysyndeton, various types of repetition, parallel constructions should be mentioned among the main stylistic devices. All these methods add logic and concreteness to the presentation, which is sometimes grotesque, with the help of which an authentic and very characteristic image of the narrator is created.