LITERARY CHARACTER BY READER’S EYES: LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF INVESTIGATION

Authors

  • Людмила Павловна Кочетова Южный федеральный университет

Abstract

Kochetova L.P.

Keywords: character, reader, author, real individual, inference.

The character’s key position in the text is basically explained by the fact that he / she turns out to be the linking element on the text-generating axis “author - reader”. The premises of the linguistic organization of the text as an interpersonal structure are connected with both the reader’s psychological type of personality and his / her social and cultural thesaurus. As all these premises are implicitly placed into the text construction, pragmatic and cognitive theories should take into account not only linguistic, but social and cultural aspects as well. The character is the reader’s guide to the inner evaluative code of the text. The reader is to reveal this code on the basis of his / her knowledge of reality and real individuals.

Author Biography

Людмила Павловна Кочетова, Южный федеральный университет

Кочетова Людмила Павловна - соиска­тель кафедры русского языка и теории язы­ка факультета лингвистики и словесности Южного федерального университета 

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Published

2012-11-30

How to Cite

Кочетова, Л. П. (2012). LITERARY CHARACTER BY READER’S EYES: LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF INVESTIGATION. Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, (4), 106–111. Retrieved from https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/452

Issue

No. 4 (2012)

Section

LINGUISTICS

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