Linguistic, Cognitive and Narrative Strategies of the 18th – 21st centuries French Fictional Text Formation

Abstract

The research paper elaborates a new interparadigmatic theoretical and methodological approach for the identification and analysis of cognitive narrative strategies of the 18^th – 21^st centuries French fictional text formation. The complex of applied research operations has made it possible to trace the dynamics of the French writers’ narrative thinking in the 18^th – 21^st centuries. Different types of the narrative reality have been determined as a product of the author’s narrative programme which is implemented through such narrative categories, as voice, temporality, space and modality. Linguistic and cognitive mechanisms of "game" and "mirror" narrative strategies conceptualization in the French fictional text formation in the 18^th century have been revealed. Linguistic and cognitive basis of the frame organization of the narrative strategies "focus" and "memoirs" in the 19^th centuryFrench fictional text formation as well as "expression" and "self-identification" in that of the 20^th century has been reconstructed. Postmodern narrative reality in the late 20^th – early 21^st centuries has been proved to be built like a gestalt structure kaleidoscope while minimalist narrative reality is constructed on the principle of gestalt structure duplication.