The means of creating emotionality in А. I. Solzhenitsyn’s small prose: linguistic and stylistic aspect

Abstract

The study of linguistic means by which the “world of emotions” is expressed in the poetics of the writer is a necessary stage in the study not only of his work, but also of linguistic poetics in the aspect of emotive analysis of the literary text. In the article in the linguistic and stylistic aspect the means of creating emotionality in А. I. Solzhenitsyn’s small prose are characterized. It is determined that in an literary text, emotionality is created by various means, but is related to the representation of the category of expressiveness, its pragmatic function and subjective evaluation as a source of the emotional state / attitude of the speaker. Linguistic and stylistic analysis of the texts of works by А. I. Solzhenitsyn (“One Day of Ivan Denisovich” («Один день Ивана Денисовича»), “Matrena’s Yard” («Матренин двор»), “For the benefit of the cause” («Для пользы дела»)) showed that their speech is characterized by a high degree of emotionality, achieved by skillful use of various emotional means (emotional-valuable vocabulary, emotional word formation, paths that convey information about emotions, emotional syntax). The emotional space of the texts is represented by two levels - the level of the character and the level of its creator. In the texts of А. I. Solzhenitsyn’s works, emotional and evaluative vocabulary performs various functions (characteristics, influence, stimulation). It is established that emotionality in the textual space of the writer’s prose is one of the main stylistic features of the author’s poetics. Emotional and evaluative means are the leading components in the psychological, behavioral, speech characteristics of the characters of works, in the creation of artistic reality in which events take place, as well as in the reproduction of the author’s position representing the writer’s worldview. The choice of these means is determined by the plot-thematic content of the work, the author’s idea, the linguistic-stylistic system of the text, produces the content-conceptual and subtextual informativeness of the work.