SECONDARY INTERPRETATION OF FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE LITERARY AND REGIONAL WORK “THAMES: SACRED RIVER” BY PETER ACKROYD
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48371/PHILS.2024.4.75.021Keywords:
a literary and regional genre, anthropocentric paradigm, cognitive linguistics, theory of linguistic interpretation, types of interpretation, functions, cognitive models and mechanisms, language meansAbstract
The article is devoted to analysis of the subchapter “The workers of the river” from the literary and regional work “Thames: Sacred River” by Peter Ackroyd. The aim of the study is to substantiate the way of creation such a genre-hybrid based on integration of collective and individual knowledge in the frame of the theory of linguistic interpretation of the world and knowledge about the world as manifestation of the anthropocentric essence of language. Actuality of the research is determined by interdisciplinary approach to study of literary works from positions of literary studies, cognitive linguistics and text linguistics. Scientific novelty consists in effective application of methodology of cognitive linguistics to explain mechanisms of formation of a new type of literary genre-hybrid.
Methods of research are the following: the conceptual and lingua-stylistic analysis as well as analysis of some textual categories.
The main result of the study consists in the conclusion that the literary and regional genre of the analysed work is produced in the process of author’s secondary interpretation of factual information about the world with the help of corresponding cognitive and linguistic models of meaning formation as well as language means of its representation. Peter Ackroyd’s own vision and comprehension of the collective knowledge about river workers created additional interpretative meanings and expanded the content of the concept THAMES as a decisive factor for socioeconomic development of the region and country due to the formation of River labour market, formation of the first industrial and trade population in England in the 18th-19th centuries, urbanization of the river area and forming sociocultural types of river workers.
The theoretical and practical significance of the research lies in the applicability of its findings to various theoretical courses in Literature Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Text Linguistics, and Stylistics, as well as in practical seminars on Text Interpretation.
