Published 2019-11-29
Keywords
- postmodernism, valency, intent-analysis, syncretism, grammatical marker
- постмодернізм, валентність, інтент-аналіз, синкретизм, граматичний маркер
Abstract
The purpose of the research is to analyze the contracted elements in the feminist literature of Great Britain of the postmodern era of the early 21st century.
The research methodology is based on a comprehensive analysis of the object of study – sentences with contracted elements in British fiction at lexical, grammatical, semantic and communicative-pragmatic levels. The sentences were analyzed in terms of valence, transformational, component and intent analysis. The study of the valence of predicates that can be found in the novels written by women has shown that both verbal and nominative predicates are the basic syntaxemes of the sentence. Transformational method was used to identify the typical features of contracted elements in textual functioning. Component analysis helped to determine the structure of sentences with contracted elements. The method of Intent Analysis was aimed at identifying the intention that motivate communication and is implemented in speech acts and expressed at the language level through contracted elements of the sentence. The scientific novelty of the article is based on the analysis of the contracted components in British women’s novels of postmodern era at the text level. A complex approach is applied to the study of sentences with contracted elements; semantic and communicative-pragmatic features are highlighted and their interaction is emphasized. Conclusions. Gender models are well described in the texts, the characters appear in a new system. Gender aspect is visible in an extensive system of different parameters that show the female features in the literary works: an emotionally coloured picture of the world is accepted by readers through women’s perception. The plot is based on a romantic love story. Events take place either in foreign countries, or in the castle, on the ranch, or just in some forgotten places. Openness of text on the basis of multicomponent series, syntactic repetition, syncretic constructions are the means that help readers to enter the inner world of heroes. Since each novel is special and new components are introduced to the image of the woman, the specific features of women’s prose cannot be fixed models, but vary from novel to novel. The contracted elements used by writers add expressiveness to the description of events.
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