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COMPLEMENTARITY OF SEMIOTIC SYSTEMS AS A PRINCIPLE OF INTERPRETING EVENTS (BASED ON E. HEMINGWAY’S STORY «A CANARY FOR ONE»)

Linguistic Theory. Cross-cultural Communication Theory , UDC: 821.111(73)-31«19» DOI: 10.25688/2076-913X.2024.53.1.08

Authors

  • Kosichenko Elena F. Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil.), Associate Professor

Annotation

The article conveys the results of analysis of the story «A Canary for One» by E. Hemingway, the great American writer of the first half of the 20th century. The analysis serves to reveal and to describe ways and means of creating a narrative conflict as well as aims to stress the role of heterogeneous signs in conveying the message of a piece of literary writing and in exercising an emotional impact on the reader. The key relevance of the undertaken research is that it develops a semiotic approach to fiction, thus contributing to better understanding different aspects of sign systems interaction, to revealing the interpretative potential of this interaction, and to describing its pragmatic effect. Methods of narrative, linguosemiotic, linguostylistic and onomastic analysis serve to identify the role of the main event, which is purchasing a canary, in initiating and developing the conflict, as well as to reveal the significance of cultural symbols, proper names and a number of lexical units in interpreting the main event, representing cultural values, conveying the theme of loneliness and developing the inner and outer conflict through the opposition ‘Self and the Other’. The article describes the event as a phenomenon created by language and interpreted in the text by means of different signs with a special focus on the role of interacting elements (cultural symbols, brands and place names, marked lexemes) in illustrating the main event, initiating and developing the conflict. As a result, it is concluded that a complex analysis of literary narrative contributes to studying the principles of sign systems interaction, above all the complementary principle according to which signs of different nature interpret one another, thus producing new meanings.
Tags:
cultural symbol , event , ideological opposition , literary narrative , onomasticon , pragmatic effect

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Kosichenko, E. F. (2024). COMPLEMENTARITY OF SEMIOTIC SYSTEMS AS A PRINCIPLE OF INTERPRETING EVENTS (BASED ON E. HEMINGWAY’S STORY «A CANARY FOR ONE») Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 1 (53), 105. https://doi.org/10.25688/2076-913X.2024.53.1.08
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