REALISATION OF THE ETHNOCONCEPT “BUSH” IN AUSTRALIAN LITERARY TEXTS FOR CHILDREN (CASE STUDY OF DOROTHY WALL’S SHORT STORIES “BLINKY BILL”)
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Херсонського державного університету. Серія: “Лінгвістика” - Year 2018, Vol 34, Issue 2
Abstract
The article is focused on the study of linguostylistic means of realisation of the ethnoconcept BUSH in Dorothy Wall’s short stories “Blinky Bill”. The article proposes an overview of the main approaches to the study of the concept in the context of culturology, cognitive semantics and semiotics. The concept structure is considered as consisiting of three layers in particular conceptual, figurative and valuable. The ethnoconcept BUSH is defined in the article as the concept that occupies an important place in the Australian concept sphere and that accumulates specific national aspects of the Australian realities. The conceptual plane of the ethnoconcept BUSH is modelled by extracting the implicit meanings that structuralize it from the definitions of the lexeme bush and its compatibility in explanatory and etymological dictionaries. It is clarified the basic implications of the conceptual plane of the ethnoconcept BUSH that include the understanding of the bush as a wild uncultivated part of Australia; sparsely settled rural area; a region with peculiar vegetation; the home of indigenous Australians; aboriginal sacred place; safe terrain, shelter for its inhabitants; the territory rich with its gifts; opposition to the city; wild and dangerous place for foreigners. It is highlighted in the article the features of realisation of the ethnoconcept BUSH in the literary text for children “Blinky Bill” by Dorothy Wall. In the semantics of the nominative units it is embodied the notions of the bush, such as the motherland, home, shelter, safe area, place of physical and mental recreation, which is generalized in the reconstructed conceptual metaphors. The linguostylistic means of figurative reinterpretation of the ethnoconcept BUSH in the literary text for children are analysed and described, among which the most frequent are personalization, simile, repetitions, epithets, synaesthetic imagery.
Authors and Affiliations
O. V. Stavenko
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP639517
- DOI -
- Views 63
- Downloads 0
SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONING OF CONJUNCTIONS OF SIMILARITY (ON THE MATERIAL OF WORKS OF DARА KORNIY)
The article is devoted to the analysis of semantic and syntactic spheres of comparative conjunctions in individual style of Dara Korniy. Appropriateness of semantic and syntactic functioning of conjunctions of similarity...
FEATURES OF THE TRANSLATION OF GERMAN PHRASEOLOGISMS IN UKRAINIAN (BASED ON THE POEM BY G. HEINE "ATTA TROLL" TRANSLATED BY LESYA UKRAINKA)
The article attempts to analyze the translation of phraseological units from the German language into Ukrainian. The material for the study was the text of the poem by G. Heine "Atta Troll" and its translation into Ukrai...
DIFFERENTIATION OF ABROMORFEMES ACCORDING TO CORRELATION WITH BASIC WORD COMBINATION
In the article it is determined that one of the main reasons for the violation of structural parallelism between motivational phrases and abbreviations is the discrepancy between the constructive abilities of the phrase...
TO THE QUESTION OF SLANG IN LINGUISTICS (50’S OF THE XIX CENTURY – 40’S OF THE XX CENTURY)
In the article the studying of general theoretical problems of slang in studious of linguists of the Europe, UIn the article the analysis of the research of general theoretical problems of slang in studious of linguists...
SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE ENGLISH THEATRICAL TERMINOLOGY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TILL THE BEGINNING OR THE XXI CENTURY
The article focuses on the analysis of origin, development and modern state of the English theatrical terminology system. It reveals the stages of its development from the XVI century till the beginning of the XXI centur...