Language of poetry and poetic discourse (on the problem of the relationship of concepts)

Siqi Wang

Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008 Russia

E-mail: 361612384@qq.com

Received April 20, 2021

 

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DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.4-5.119-128

For citation: Wang S. Language of poetry and poetic discourse (on the problem of the relationship of concepts). Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2021, vol. 163, no. 4–5, pp. 119–128. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.4-5.119-128. (In Russian)

Abstract

The article examines the essential and logical-hierarchical relationships of such concepts as poetic discourse, poetic language, and the language of poetry. The relevance of the research is determined by fact that the understanding and interpretation of poetic discourse within the framework of the scientific theory is in a state of development, the methodology of literary criticism and linguistics is evolving, and many concepts are still confused. Opinions expressed by the researchers who have studied the essence of poetic language and language of poetry, as well as support the concept of poetic discourse, are analyzed. The main results of the study include the definition of concepts of ethical discourse, poetic language, and the language of poetry in close logical and epistemological relationship with each other. Based on the obtained results, the following conclusions are made. Firstly, the phenomenal essence of poetic language is described. Secondly, the mechanism of poetic discourse development is viewed as a result of two refractions (author’s and reader’s) of the language of poetry. At the same time, the language of poetry is presented as a locus (modus) of a worldview or a linguistic worldview. Thirdly, poetic discourse is considered as part of artistic discourse, which is not only emotional and aesthetic, but also cognitive and aesthetic content. The above-given conclusions are important for the theory of linguistics and literary criticism, because they contain the rationale for the statement that poetic discourse is a level of understanding and interpretation of the language of poetry as a mode of the linguistic reality. At the same time, poetic language is a skillfully applied technological side of a special kind of creative, heuristic activity.

Keywords: poetic discourse, poetic language, language of poetry, modus, linguistic reality

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Fig. 1. Poetic discourse as a part of the artistic discourse and the modus of the language of poetry.

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