THE MEANS OF VERBALIZATION OF ONEIRIC SPACE IN A LITERARY TEXT

Abstract

The article substantiates the relevance of turning to the study of the concept of oneiric space, as well as the legitimacy of its use in linguistic research. The task of the article is to describe the means of verbalization of oneiric space in a literary text. The research material is a novel by A.I. Solzhenitsyn “Red Wheel”. The use of the method of functional-semantic analysis when working with practical material made it possible to reveal techniques for the artistic and aesthetic use of linguistic facts. The theoretical and practical significance lies in the fact that this study contributes to the systematization of approaches to the problem of linguistic description and interpretation of oneiric space as part of the artistic space of the text. The results of the study can be used in scientific and pedagogical activities when studying the linguistic features of spatial categories of literary texts. The main attention in the article is paid to the analysis of lexical means with the help of which A.I. Solzhenitsyn creates oneiric space. The means of verbalization of oneiric space are commonly used words in the literal sense, actualizing the seme ‘sleep, dream’, as well as expressive means containing an implicit indication of its variety: dream-prediction, dream-vision, dream-death. In conclusion, it is concluded that the term “oneiric space” is interdisciplinary in nature and can be used in the process of linguistic analysis of a literary text, the multiplicity of interpretations of which is determined by the intentional attitudes of the writer.