Communicative and Discursive Aspects of Artworks Realisation in English Literary Texts

Abstract

An artistic phenomenon as cultural element in the system of humanities knowledge is functioning in close connection with language and has a potential of aesthetic, emotional, and informative influence, constituting moral and world outlook cues, as well as ideals and goals of the humanity. Adherence of language and different kinds of art is determined in frames of language realisation as communication means and standard of dynamic processes of the humanity development, in which an important role is played by art [5, p. 31].Being an important part of human life, artistic phenomenon is widely used in literary texts as they represent the reality. In this paper artworks are considered as part of communicative process and are fully-featured elements of communicative act.Nominative and stylistic parameters of artistic realia actualisation in English are exteriorised due to the use of artistic realia nominations in lexicosemantic field of art. Artworks nominations are verified in lexicographic and literary sources by means of lexico-semantic groups, which are subordinate to the archiseme «art» and are represented by such lexemes as music, painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre, etc. There are direct and indirect nominations of artistic phenomena. Direct nominations are fixed in lexicographic sources. Indirect nominations are objectivised in the form of reference according to the title, genre, author/representator, means and ways of representation [3, p. 47; 4, p. 112; 7 p. 53].Communicative and discursive peculiarities of artworks description in English literary texts are considered as message in the process of communication, as well as status, role, time and space characteristics of the artistic discourse. Special attention should be given to the consideration of the information channels in the artistic communicative situation and background knowledge realisation in the process of artworks decoding in English literary texts [1, p. 48].Artwork is considered as message in artistic communicative situation on the basis of the analysis of its role (element of context, object or subject of the