Existential Sentences as a Characteristic Syntactic Feature of I. A. Bunin’s Poetic Texts
In this article, existential sentences are examined as a syntactic dominant of I. A. Bunin’s lyrical poetry. The interest in the originality of the syntax of Nobel laureate’s literary texts is due to the lack of research on this issue, linguists’ focus on the aesthetic salience of the vocabulary, it...
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| description | In this article, existential sentences are examined as a syntactic dominant of I. A. Bunin’s lyrical poetry. The interest in the originality of the syntax of Nobel laureate’s literary texts is due to the lack of research on this issue, linguists’ focus on the aesthetic salience of the vocabulary, its expressive properties and combination potential, as well as stylistic figures and tropes. Meanwhile, it is the writer’s selection of specific syntactic structures for the implementation of the idea, the representation of key ideas and concepts that reflect his personality and the peculiarities of his perception of the surrounding world.
The author refers to Bunin’s poems from 1886–1917 and 1918–1953 published in Bunin’s collected works in 9 volumes.
In the writer’s poetic oeuvre, existential sentences are regularly used. Despite the traditional structure that underlies them and is represented by three meanings (‘the object of being’, ‘being’, and ‘area of being’), the richness of the lexical content of each of the main components stands out. As a result, existential sentences become a universal form used to represent completely different situations in the author’s individual worldview: the existence of natural objects in space, meteorological phenomena, events, time periods, artifacts, etc.; physical states of the surrounding world; psychological states of the subject.
Acting as a semantic core of a poetic text, existential sentences do not have a fixed place in it, and are used as a lyrical beginning, an interposed element, or an ending in its structure. In each position, their use is conceptually significant.
It is established that the peculiarity of existential sentences in Bunin’s lyrical poetry is their syntactic unconditionality (attachment to three registers of speech, i.e. reproductive, informative, and generative) and polyfunctionality (performing the pictorial, characterising and concluding, and generalising functions). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-88490d48993f4c06869f887c648a4bd22022-12-21T23:24:00ZrusUral Federal University PressИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки2227-22832587-69292020-12-01224(202)25627210.15826/izv2.2020.22.4.0753762Existential Sentences as a Characteristic Syntactic Feature of I. A. Bunin’s Poetic TextsOlga Aleksandrovna Selemeneva0Елецкий государственный университет имени И. А. Бунина, ЕлецIn this article, existential sentences are examined as a syntactic dominant of I. A. Bunin’s lyrical poetry. The interest in the originality of the syntax of Nobel laureate’s literary texts is due to the lack of research on this issue, linguists’ focus on the aesthetic salience of the vocabulary, its expressive properties and combination potential, as well as stylistic figures and tropes. Meanwhile, it is the writer’s selection of specific syntactic structures for the implementation of the idea, the representation of key ideas and concepts that reflect his personality and the peculiarities of his perception of the surrounding world. The author refers to Bunin’s poems from 1886–1917 and 1918–1953 published in Bunin’s collected works in 9 volumes. In the writer’s poetic oeuvre, existential sentences are regularly used. Despite the traditional structure that underlies them and is represented by three meanings (‘the object of being’, ‘being’, and ‘area of being’), the richness of the lexical content of each of the main components stands out. As a result, existential sentences become a universal form used to represent completely different situations in the author’s individual worldview: the existence of natural objects in space, meteorological phenomena, events, time periods, artifacts, etc.; physical states of the surrounding world; psychological states of the subject. Acting as a semantic core of a poetic text, existential sentences do not have a fixed place in it, and are used as a lyrical beginning, an interposed element, or an ending in its structure. In each position, their use is conceptually significant. It is established that the peculiarity of existential sentences in Bunin’s lyrical poetry is their syntactic unconditionality (attachment to three registers of speech, i.e. reproductive, informative, and generative) and polyfunctionality (performing the pictorial, characterising and concluding, and generalising functions).https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/4863поэзия и. а. бунинаидиостильсинтаксисэкзистенциальные предложенияструктурная схемакоммуникативный регистрфункция |
| spellingShingle | Olga Aleksandrovna Selemeneva Existential Sentences as a Characteristic Syntactic Feature of I. A. Bunin’s Poetic Texts Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки поэзия и. а. бунина идиостиль синтаксис экзистенциальные предложения структурная схема коммуникативный регистр функция |
| title | Existential Sentences as a Characteristic Syntactic Feature of I. A. Bunin’s Poetic Texts |
| title_full | Existential Sentences as a Characteristic Syntactic Feature of I. A. Bunin’s Poetic Texts |
| title_fullStr | Existential Sentences as a Characteristic Syntactic Feature of I. A. Bunin’s Poetic Texts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Existential Sentences as a Characteristic Syntactic Feature of I. A. Bunin’s Poetic Texts |
| title_short | Existential Sentences as a Characteristic Syntactic Feature of I. A. Bunin’s Poetic Texts |
| title_sort | existential sentences as a characteristic syntactic feature of i a bunin s poetic texts |
| topic | поэзия и. а. бунина идиостиль синтаксис экзистенциальные предложения структурная схема коммуникативный регистр функция |
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