Language and aesthetic sign of culture “muse” in language creation of the neoclassics

Alyona Palash, Postgraduate student at the Department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistics
Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Mykhailo Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine

E-mail: palash706@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5283-9906

Heading: Young Scholars Articles
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The article identifies and substantiates the essential features of neoclassical movements of the twentieth century. It is noted that the aesthetic credo of the neoclassics largely corresponds to the instructions of the symbolists. It is proved that figurative means performing expressive and aesthetic functions in the poetic language. It is noted that the analysis of the author’s linguistic creativity requires a comprehensive study of all components. It is noted that the uniqueness of linguistic means, their enhanced expressiveness, and stylistic marking of words are always based on an objective psychological assessment of the writer. Attention is focused on the aesthetic, linguistic-spatial, lexical criteria, and the criterion of contextual (situational) attachment of the word creation of Ukrainian poets.  It is indicated that the poets’ orientation towards high style led to the modification of the lexical system of the poetic language; commonly used and highly specialized terminological names expand their compatibility, become determined, and acquire emotional and expressive coloring. It is noted that neoclassics use the aesthetic potential of lexical and semantic images, and resort to the value transfer of signs from the concrete-sensual to the intra-sensual, adding associative and symbolic meaning to the nominative meaning.

The article demonstrates and comprehensively analyses the linguistic and aesthetic signs of culture “muse” in the poetic language of neoclassical authors. It is emphasized that the figurative and expressive specificity of neoclassical poetry is determined by the rootedness of the aesthetic credo in ancient culture. It has been found that the linguistic and aesthetic sign of culture “muse” is concrete in the images of goddesses, creativity/poetry, inspiration, woman/girl, and Ukraine. The ideological marking of this linguistic and aesthetic sign is noted. The newest semantic additions, which the image of the muse acquires in the poetic practice of the neoclassics, are identified. It is noted that the neoclassics use the aesthetic potential of lexical and semantic images, and resort to the value transfer of signs from the concrete-sensual to the intra-sensual, adding associative and figurative content to the nominal meaning.

Keywords: author’s style, language creativity, linguistic and aesthetic sign of culture, image, metaphor.

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