THE ROLE OF PRECEDENT NAMES IN SHAPING OPPOSITION DISCOURSE IN A MEXICAN FICTION NOVEL

Abstract

The article justifies the need to include the corpus of texts of political novels in the framework of studies of political discourse. The expediency of considering an artistic text from the point of view of political linguistics is confirmed by an analysis of three modern political Mexican novels, which reflect essentially the quintessence of opposition Mexican thought, which cannot be expressed in an institutional way due to local conditions. The precedent names highlighted in the novel in large volume, bearing political overtones and a pronounced evaluative connotation, only confirm the author’s theory that all the same methods should be used in the study of a political novel as in the study of institutional political discourse. The abundance of precedent names allowed the authors to create their classification, as well as reveal and explain their political connotation, which should serve as the basis for further discursive studies of the political novel. To adequately decipher the information laid down by the author of the novel in precedent units, the reader must have certain presuppositive knowledge or get a detailed explanation from the translator.