SIMILE: COGNITIVE AND SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Херсонського державного університету. Серія: “Лінгвістика” - Year 2018, Vol 34, Issue 2
Abstract
The article reveals linguistic, cognitive and semiotic characteristics of simile in English poetic texts of Canadian poetry. Cognitive peculiarities of simile are defined via cognitive and semiotic operation of comparison and reconstruction of concepts and conceptual metaphors which underlie it, while semiotic peculiarities are clarified via identification of cultural codes and word-symbols which are represented in subjective and objective parts of similes. The semiotic nature of simile is realized concurrently in the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic aspect of semiosis. From the standpoint of the semantic aspect, simile is a verbal sign within which a signifier and a signified are united by a certain type of semiotic connection. The syntactic aspect of semiosis involves the study of simile in terms of the valency of linguistic signs in its surface structure and their interaction with other constructive elements of the poetic text, as this interaction serves as the background for creating textual worlds. A system of heterogeneous textual elements of different levels is described and structured with the help of functional-semantic field model. The pragmatic aspect of semiosis presupposes analysis of the influence of simile on the interpretation adequacy of an addressee, as similes and the whole poetic text are interpreted by an interpreter with his/her individual background.
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Ya. M. Prosiannikova
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