Paradoxicality in Modern English Poetic Discourse: Testing Boundaries of Linguistic Research in the 21st Century
Abstract
This article elaborates on a paradigmatic dialogue approach to explore paradoxicality manifestations in modern English poetic discourse. It follows a "jigsaw pattern" principle predominant in linguistic research in the 21st century and kaleidoscopically integrates key notions, techniques, and methodological tools of cognitive poetics, including multimodal, cognitive semiotics, and mobile stylistics. Such an approach facilitates developing a completely new view on paradoxicality. The paper defines paradoxicality as a cognitive and discursive category, modelled on the basis of "fuzzy set" principle, which predetermines the elasticity of its boundaries and constant accessibility for new members. A number of categorial features, related to certain categorial foci, structure the category. In particular, contradiction, unusualness, boundedness, anomality and mobility foci actualized to a different extent in multimodal poetic discourse through paradoxical poetic forms (micro-, macro- and megaparadoxical). The paper proves that paradoxical poetic forms are multimodal construals, incorporating preconceptual, conceptual, verbal, and non-verbal facets. Formation of paradoxical poetic forms is a result of linguistic and cognitive activity of addresser and addressee ensured by linguistic and cognitive processes of precategorization, acategorization and categorization. Cognitive and semiotic operations as well as procedures accompany each process at a certain facet of a form.
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