Poetical reduplications in Alexander Vveden­sky’s fiction

The article is devoted to the study of the poetics of reduplication in Alexander Vveden­sky's fiction texts. The aim of this research is to analyse the functional range of reduplications at different textual levels, from the lexical to the thematic. Reduplication is understood as one of the mos...

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Autores principales: Tatiana V. Tsvigun, Alexey N. Chernyakov
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:eea98fc3b8bc4496b8112b57d85b76b42021-11-24T12:17:42ZPoetical reduplications in Alexander Vveden­sky’s fiction10.5922/2225-5346-2021-4-32225-53462686-8989https://doaj.org/article/eea98fc3b8bc4496b8112b57d85b76b42021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.kantiana.ru/slovo/4956/31223/https://doaj.org/toc/2225-5346https://doaj.org/toc/2686-8989The article is devoted to the study of the poetics of reduplication in Alexander Vveden­sky's fiction texts. The aim of this research is to analyse the functional range of reduplications at different textual levels, from the lexical to the thematic. Reduplication is understood as one of the most important tools of Vvedensky's linguopoetic experiment, aimed at the 'revision' of the ability of language to signify and represent the world and its basic semiotic principles. For Vvedensky, the non-normative punctuation of contact lexical reduplications creates prerequi­sites for perceiving repeated word forms as occasional homonyms, distinguishes the signified behind the signifier, and also problematizes the nature of poetic communication. On the grammatical level, reduplication creates tension between repeated grammar patterns and their lexical realisations, which allows Vvedensky to demonstrate the potential extensibility of syn­tactic models and make grammatical semantics a compensatory mechanism that fills the se­mantic void of the poetic utterance. Vvedensky's thematization of reduplication as the "dou­bling of the world" is a mirror, which deforms and transforms reality. Mirror semiosis illus­tra­tes the loss of iconicity by reduplication and, as a consequence, the impossibility to repre­sent the object by its reflection. The authors conclude that on the level of vocabulary and gram­mar, reduplication creates dynamism in the verbal space of the text, activates its inter­pre­tation and thus creates the situation of gnoseological doubt in the adequacy of language as a means of representing the world. In the thematic field, it deprives the world of its self-iden­tity since objects constantly multiply, lose their distinctiveness or, on the contrary, find mea­ning where it does not exist. Tatiana V. TsvigunAlexey N. ChernyakovImmanuel Kant Baltic Federal Universityarticlealexander vvedenskyreduplicationpoetic repetitionlinguistic experimentpoetic grammarPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENRUСлово.ру: балтийский акцент , Vol 12, Iss 4, Pp 51-64 (2021)
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topic alexander vvedensky
reduplication
poetic repetition
linguistic experiment
poetic grammar
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle alexander vvedensky
reduplication
poetic repetition
linguistic experiment
poetic grammar
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Tatiana V. Tsvigun
Alexey N. Chernyakov
Poetical reduplications in Alexander Vveden­sky’s fiction
description The article is devoted to the study of the poetics of reduplication in Alexander Vveden­sky's fiction texts. The aim of this research is to analyse the functional range of reduplications at different textual levels, from the lexical to the thematic. Reduplication is understood as one of the most important tools of Vvedensky's linguopoetic experiment, aimed at the 'revision' of the ability of language to signify and represent the world and its basic semiotic principles. For Vvedensky, the non-normative punctuation of contact lexical reduplications creates prerequi­sites for perceiving repeated word forms as occasional homonyms, distinguishes the signified behind the signifier, and also problematizes the nature of poetic communication. On the grammatical level, reduplication creates tension between repeated grammar patterns and their lexical realisations, which allows Vvedensky to demonstrate the potential extensibility of syn­tactic models and make grammatical semantics a compensatory mechanism that fills the se­mantic void of the poetic utterance. Vvedensky's thematization of reduplication as the "dou­bling of the world" is a mirror, which deforms and transforms reality. Mirror semiosis illus­tra­tes the loss of iconicity by reduplication and, as a consequence, the impossibility to repre­sent the object by its reflection. The authors conclude that on the level of vocabulary and gram­mar, reduplication creates dynamism in the verbal space of the text, activates its inter­pre­tation and thus creates the situation of gnoseological doubt in the adequacy of language as a means of representing the world. In the thematic field, it deprives the world of its self-iden­tity since objects constantly multiply, lose their distinctiveness or, on the contrary, find mea­ning where it does not exist.
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