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CONCEPTS “ETHICS”, “MEMORY” AND “POWER” IN CROSS-GENRE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (BASED ON THE WORKS OF VIET THANH NGUYEN “NOTHING EVER DIES” AND “THE SYMPATHIZER”) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2019. Issue 9 (206). P. 54-63

Introduction. In this article we attempted to analyze the textual material of two multi-genre works written by one author. Our attention was drawn to the mechanisms of actualization of meaning at the level of words, phrases and sentences. In the course of our analysis, we also identified concepts that are significant for the author and described the role of concept-regulators in the formation of meaning represented in fiction and publicistic texts. Purpose of the study. Our purpose is to analyze the textual material of two multi-genre works of literature and prove that certain set of relevant meanings, represented by the concepts “ethics”, “memory” and “power” within the text of a publicistic work, will also be present in the conceptual-semantic content of the work of fiction by the same author. Material and methods. We have used the following methods: conceptual and structural analysis of the text, stylistic analysis of the text, associative-semantic interpretation of the text in the context of communicative and anthropocentric paradigms; morphological, lexical and syntactic analysis of the text with allocation of its separate levels represented by a word and an utterance. Works of Viet Thanh Nguyen “The Sympathizer” and “Nothing Ever Dies” with a total volume of 727 pages is the material of the research. Results and discussion. The study confirmed the suppositional hypothesis. The semantic dominant “memory” inside the semantic field “love – life – war – memory – sensation”, which we discovered earlier in the analysis of the “The Sympathizer”, remains analogous in the publicistic work “Nothing Ever Dies”. The analysis of the work “Nothing Ever Dies” confirmed the remaining actuality of the dominant concept “memory”, the significant concept “power” and also allowed us to highlight and describe the properties of the concept-regulators “ethics” and “dual”. Conclusion. The stylistic, syntactic, conceptual and structural analysis of the two texts allowed us to single out previously unnoticed functional concepts-regulators “ethics” and “dual” implemented in speech in conjunction with other concepts that demonstrate greater substantiality, but less functionality, such as “memory” and “power”. The duality of the concept “memory” is not an internal attribute of this concept, but arises under the influence of the concept-regulatory “dual”. The same is true for other substantial concepts, such as, for example, “power”.

Keywords: concept, concept-regulator, multi-genre works, publicistic work, discourse, transmission of meaning

VARIABLE-INVARIANT COMPOSITION AND TYPICAL PROPERTIES OF THE CONCEPT MEMORY AS STRUCTURAL COMPONENT OF THE CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2020. Issue 5 (211). P. 103-113

Introduction. This article presents a linguistic study of the typical properties of the concept memory, provides a detailed description of the concept memory and the conceptual category memory; establishes their terminological relationship. The content of the article provides a description of the modeling of typical components of the concept memory within the analyzed category. The purpose of the study. The purpose of the study is to describe, model and analyze author’s consciousness in a complex of concepts, conceptual categories and meanings that represent it. The objectives of the study include identifying the components of the concept and its typical properties functioning as a component of the conceptual category memory. Material and methods. The study is conducted in the context of a communicative and anthropocentric paradigms. The research methods are represented by conceptual, psycholinguistic and semantic analyses of typical utterances in Russian and English, representing the components of the concept memory, as well as typical properties of the conceptual category memory. The material is represented by typical utterances in Russian and English, containing morphemes “па/ом”, “мем” (in Russian), mem (in English), as well as associates of the word “память” / memory. Results and discussion. The tables and corresponding descriptions simulate the typical content and psycholinguistic properties of the concept memory as part of the conceptual category memory. The verbal (possessing root morphemes “па/ом”, “мем” (in Russian), mem (in English) and associative selection of typical utterances representing the concept memory shows typical content of the concept and denotes its functional properties as part of the conceptual category memory. Various speech variants implementing the concept memory are described as small variants representing the concept. The implementation of the concept as part of the internal content of the designation of objects of culture and art, as well as part of the literary narrative (books texts), creates big variants. The emerging typical components and properties of the concept memory makes it possible to consider the conceptual category memory as one of the basic categories involved in the formation of the storyline and the semantic content of literary narrative. The analysis shows that it is possible to consider a text of a literary work (a book) as a big variant of realization of the conceptual category memory.

Keywords: concept, conceptual category, variant, typical properties, typical content, invariant, meaning