ON THE CONCEPT OF PERCEPTUAL DOMINANT IN LITERARY TEXT (BASED ON THE STORIES OF A.I. KUPRIN “GARNET BRACELET” AND “SWAMP”)

Abstract

The paper notes the ambiguity of understanding the perceptual dominant: physiologists and psychologists understand the predominance of information from one of the receptors (or from several – synesthesia) as the dominant, psycholinguists and cognitivists associate perception with thinking and find confirmation of this in language. The description of the functional and pragmatic potential of perceptual vocabulary leads linguists to the conclusion that the dominant type of perception (or the interaction of different types of perception) of the author of a literary text is reflected in his idiostyle, determining the main motives, themes and images. However, the number of such works is insufficient, text studies are needed to identify and describe features of functioning of perceptual vocabulary when creating an artistic image. In addition, a systematic description of the vocabulary of perception in the stories of A.I. Kuprin was not carried out. All this determines the relevance of the study and its scientific novelty. The article reveals a concept of perceptual dominant not as an individual feature of a writer, but as an artistic technique that the author uses depending on his intentions, organizing an individual artistic picture of the world or its fragments.