Types and Functions of Foregrounding in the Contemporary Flash Fiction Stories
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2019-12-20
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Ємець, Олександр Васильович
Yemets, Alexander
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SKASE Journal < Slovakia
Анотація
Стаття присвячена дослідженню стилістичного прийому висунення у коротких оповіданнях. Визначається роль стилістичної конвергенції та паралелізму в оповіданнях flash fiction
The theory of foregrounding occupies an important place in Stylistics. Foregrounding can be defined as the principle of text organization which is aimed at attracting the reader’s (listener’s) attention to the pragmatically significant parts of the message. In this paper, the techniques of foregrounding in the contemporary American flash fiction stories are investigated. As G. Leech singles out two aspects of foregrounding – quantitative and qualitative ones, the techniques of quantitative aspect such as stylistic convergence and parallelism in the stories are characterized. It is emphasized that convergence is the main technique of foregrounding in flash fiction. The components of convergences and the position of the foregrounded parts appear to be pragmatically important. The major type of qualitative aspect in the stories is deviation, mainly semantic and morphological deviation. The paper states that due to the presence of the foregrounded parts in strong positions the tropes in convergence acquire a conceptual character and become the conceptual metaphors of love, friendship, and sympathy. Thus, many of such stories can be described as modern parables. The prospects of further research of foregrounding are formulated.
The theory of foregrounding occupies an important place in Stylistics. Foregrounding can be defined as the principle of text organization which is aimed at attracting the reader’s (listener’s) attention to the pragmatically significant parts of the message. In this paper, the techniques of foregrounding in the contemporary American flash fiction stories are investigated. As G. Leech singles out two aspects of foregrounding – quantitative and qualitative ones, the techniques of quantitative aspect such as stylistic convergence and parallelism in the stories are characterized. It is emphasized that convergence is the main technique of foregrounding in flash fiction. The components of convergences and the position of the foregrounded parts appear to be pragmatically important. The major type of qualitative aspect in the stories is deviation, mainly semantic and morphological deviation. The paper states that due to the presence of the foregrounded parts in strong positions the tropes in convergence acquire a conceptual character and become the conceptual metaphors of love, friendship, and sympathy. Thus, many of such stories can be described as modern parables. The prospects of further research of foregrounding are formulated.
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foregrounding, quantitative aspect, qualitative aspect, stylistic device, stylisticconvergence deviation, parallelism
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Yemets A. Types and Functions of Foregrounding in the Contemporary Flash Fiction Stories / A. Yemets // SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. - 2019. - Vol. 16, № 4. - P. 93-103.