Cognitive-pragmatic status of the frame-scenario in the implementation of fiction

Abstract

The formation of fiction is determined by the cognitive-pragmatic specificity of the frames-scenarios that constitute the dominants of the semantic space of a literary text. The fictional reality modelled by the author has a fictional nature, while fiction is interpreted as a “construction” of a possible reality. The article focuses on the substantiation of the cognitive-pragmatic status of the frame-scenario in the formation and functioning of fiction. Based on the material of micro- and macro-contexts taken from the text of J. Fowles’s novel “The Magus” (1965) (in the original and translated into Russian by B.N. Kuzminsky), the functioning of the frame-scenario Game as a constituent of the semantic space of the fictional text is parameterized. It is done within the coordinates of the literary reality and the fantasy world that prove to be fictional in the cognitive-semantic nature. The research methods form a holistic complex in application to the material, the priority ones are the observation method, the deductive-inductive method, the comparison and contrast method, the linguistic modelling method, the frame and cognitive-semantic analysis, and the philological interpretation. The study established that the development of events in the text of the novel “The Magus” constitutes a conflict between the scenario based on the stereotyping of the situation and the frame-scenario, which is aimed at deconstructing multi-level stereotypes. Literary reality and the fantasy world in the parameters of fiction are delimited from each other in a specific physical space. The objectification of the fundamental unreality of the literary text occurs through the frame-scenario Game, since it constitutes literary fiction not only in spatio-temporal coordinates or subject features that are deconstructed by the character and the reader, but also within the framework of their logical conclusions, for which the semantic resource of comparative constructions and metaphors is involved.

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