Linguistic image of flora in modern English language discourse - Курсовая работа

CHAPTER 1. THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF STUDYING THE LINGUISTIC IMAGE OF FLORA IN MODERN ENGLISH DISCOURSE linguistic flora english novel “What do we call visible light?” the Frenchman asks. “We call it color. But really, mathematically, all of light is invisible” (Anthony Doerr All the Light We Cannot See). 1.1 The notion of discourse in modern linguistics The notion of text is very broad and in current linguistics there is no generally excepted definition of it. The term text has its origins in Quintilians book on speeches, with the statement that after you have chosen your words, they must be weaved together into a fine and delicate fabric, with the Latin for fabric being textum [Quintilian 2015, p. 358]. Quintilian’s metaphor that text is fabric has survived 2,000 years of use. The writers still weave stories together, embroider them and try never to lose the thread of the tale. Later classical writers took up text to mean any short passage in a book. In modern linguistics, there are three approaches to studying text - structural, communicative and interpretational [Воробьёва 1993, р. Other scholars within communicative approach define text being specifically focused on particular parameters of a communicative situation. B. Hatim and I. Mason are focused on the addressee considering text to be “a set of mutually relevant communicative functions, structured in such a way as to achieve an overall rhetorical purpose” [Hatim 1977, p. 1-2]. N. S. Valgina regards text from the point of view of coding and decoding messages, defining it as ‘an implicitly united sequence of sign units the main properties of which appear to be cohesion and coherence’ [Валгина 2003, p. However, the writer may create the space of the text in a different way, sometimes even contrary to the reality. Under interpretational approach to studying text, the notion of space is the instrument to see how the speaker can understand the world around him or her. 1.1.1 The space of text With the category of space, the notion of text can be regarded as a complex of meanings. In this case, we deal with semantic space of text, which reveals itself through two dimensions - virtual and actual. Virtual semantic space is determined by author’s choice of words, sentences and complex syntactic unities. Actual semantic space is a field where results of reader’s perception of text are formed [Бабенко 2005, p. Such a world is a continuum combining fictional time and space. It is always to some extent conventional. Conventionality of the category of space is reflected in text in accordance with author’s intention, main idea and artistic method. Literary space retains some traces of a real, physical space, being just its artistic interpretation [Каширина 2006, p. Lotman considers a literary space to be ‘the model of the world of a definite author, expressed by the language of his spatial conception’. Withal this language does not convey individuality, if we take into account the fact, that any author is influenced by time, era and society he lives in. As a result the literary space of text is apt to express author’s spatial conception, implied by his surrounding [Лотман 1988, p.