Time Actualization in Modern Female Fictional Discourse of Great Britain

Authors

  • Анна Игоревна Дзюбенко Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don

Abstract

Dzyubenko Anna Igorevna

The article deals with the specifics that is found within the time paradigm construction in the framework of the present British fictional discourse created by the outstanding women-writers of today - S. Kinsella, C. Ahern and S. Townsend. The paper studies the ways the time reference is done taking into consideration both the general linguistic ways of time objectivization through such lexemes as «minute», «hour», «second», «day», «week», «year», «month» and through«morning», «night», «afternoon», «evening», «yesterday» «today»/«tonight», «tomorrow». The author comes to the conclusion that the components of the first presented row constitute the time sequence while the ones from the second row make up the phenomenon of time hierarchy.

The analysis of the given discourse results in establishing the two-member time paradigm formed by present and future, whereas past component in such a paradigm performs the function of being the background retrospective one disclosing the cause- and-effect relations that become obvious singularly with the member of the time paradigm - present and past.

Key words: fictional discourse, individual creative style, a two-membertime paradigm, chronotopos.

Author Biography

Анна Игоревна Дзюбенко, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don

candidate of linguistics, associate professor of cross-cultural communication and methodology of foreign languages teaching dpt. Institute of philology, journalism and cross-cultural communication, Southern Federal University. Phone: 8-905-426-97-46, e-mail: dzyubenkoanna@gmail.com

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Дзюбенко, А. И. (2015). Time Actualization in Modern Female Fictional Discourse of Great Britain. Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, (3), 88–97. Retrieved from https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/830

Issue

No. 3 (2015)

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LINGUISTICS

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