Meaning Level Of The Text And The Way To Its Analysis

Abstract

The study represents an attempt to introduce the way to analysis of a meaning level of a literary text. The actual multilevel text division is presented, five text levels are defined. The study of a meaning level of a text is carried out allowing the meaning level to be a complex, self-sufficient element of a text, nevertheless due to its qualities occupying the prior position in the level paradigm, and thus able to regulate the work of other levels and the structure of a text in general. The necessity of a complex and profound analysis of the meaning level of a text is stated. The possible outcomes of the analysis and ways of conducting it are defined. The most efficient way of analysis results to be in developing an invariant integral model of a meaning level of a text that wouldallowanalysingthemechanismsofsynthesisofmeaningplaneelementsintoa complex structure. The basic elements of the meaning level of a literary text are named; their brief characteristic as well as their prior functions are given. The material for the study is presented by the novels of the dystopia genre of Russian, English and American writers, belonging to the period of the first half of the 20-th century. The reasons for choosing the dystopia genre are indicated, the results of analysis carried on the novels chosen are provided.

The Genesis of Dystopian Meaning Structure and its Relation to Utopian Literary Tradition

“…By that approach text is considered as a single unit, representing the problematic communicative situation, and the text in its unity, integrated by the parameter of initial idea, is defined as the starting point of analysis, from which the research may be conducted to the deeper levels, i.e. to the elements, constituting it" [9].…”

Synergy Of Meaning In A Literary Text

“…Relatively complete description https://doi. org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.12.04.502 Corresponding Author: Natalya Olizko Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference eISSN: 2357-1330 3750 of initial meaning reveals possible through integration of partial meanings, representing it (Zhurkova, 2018). The basis for the emergence of relations between the elements of the meaning system is the principle of symmetry, implemented by means of semantic repetition, reflected in the identity of semantic elements of functor and beta-functors as well as in the vector semantics of functors belonging to the same meaning plane.…”

Category Of Time In Modern English Works Of The Dystopian Genre

“…Although dystopia has its origins in utopia (Zhurkova, 2018;Zhurkova & Khomutnikova, 2019), we contend that such differential features as prospectivity, anthropocentrism, a typical set of characters, the concealment of history, total government control (quite often manifested in a policing language), as well as the division of the dystopian timeline by a certain event into "before" and "after", are reasons to consider dystopia as a separate literary genre.…”