Narrative contexts and semantics of discursive words (as evidenced by the lexeme zreshtoiu)

Florii Batsevych, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of General Linguistics
Ivan Franko Lviv National University
1 Universytetska St, Lviv 29000, Ukraine

E-mail: floriy.batsevych@lnu.edu.ua
https://orcid.org/0000-002-6141-8318

Heading: Articles
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The article proves that the lexeme zreshtoiu as a discursive word models the integrity of a narrative, joining the comprehension of the fragments of the previously described (retrospective) and current information. The material of the research is V. Shevchuk’s prose. As an element of retrospection, the lexeme refers to different types of narrative contexts: the primary one in Abstract and Orientation that depend upon the author’s intention; the current one in Estimation and Complication that depend upon the semantics of sentences; the final one in Solution and Coda that often reflects the author’s narrative aim; all the present narrative information – that is it can model all the structural elements of the narrative. The semantic content of the lexeme zreshtoiu is highly influenced by the context, synthesizing the cognitive features of conclusiveness or even exhaustion of the information given in the narrative, doubts in it, supposition and possibility of a new understanding and acceptance or rejection of this understanding. In some contexts, the analyzed discursive word molds a specific speech synonymy or sometimes antonymy with a set of discursive words and discursive phrases, the most frequent of which are vidtak, vtim (utim), nareshti, odnak, otozh, prote, hoch (2) (hocha). In general, the lexeme zreshtoiu appears to be the bearer of the communicative senses of ‘cognitive transmission’ in the process of modelling the content side of the narrative, the means of cohesion and coherence of various contexts of the story manifestation.

Keywords: narrative, discursive word, discursive phrase, context, communicative sense, speech synonymy, speech antonymy.

LEGEND

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