LANGUAGE GAME IN THE REALIZATION OF LITERARY FICTION: COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE ASPECT

Abstract

The article focuses on the implementation of literary fiction through the prism of application of language game’s linguistic and cognitive mechanisms. The research material is the text of A. Christie’s detective novel “A Pocket Full of Rye.” It has been proven that language game is a significant constituent of literary fiction, which determining the assignment of fictional status to objects of objective reality. This forms the basis of the process of creating fictional reality. Linguistic and cognitive mechanisms of language game in a detective text contribute to the implementation of the detective plot scheme crime – investigation: such are lexical-grammatical and syntactic means, metaphorization, irony, precedent phenomena. Cognitive-discursive characteristics of language game are determined not only by the author’s intentionality and evaluativeness, but also by the participation of the reader in aesthetic communication, the amount of background knowledge of which should hypothetically contribute to the correct decoding of the meanings of the literary text.