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The stratification of
actualized language units in a work of fiction.
General premises:
A linguistic unit can be considered a signal which generates energy that can exceed
its initial “volume”, i.e. within a literary text it can communicate some additional
meanings.
Actualization is defined as «such use of language means which draws the reader’s
attention and is perceived as unusual, deprived of automatism, deautomatized”.
“Why doesn’t he have his shirt on?" the child asks distinctly. "I don't know," her
mother says. "I suppose he thinks he has a nice chest."
"Ah canna see her changin' her mind so quickly. In fack, Ah never thought she'd
change her mind" (S. Chaplin).
- occasional graphons:
- recurrent graphons:
· "Have a nahss, trip, chillum, y'all sen' me a postcard, heah?" (J. Hersey); "Ah
may not be able to read eve'then' so good but they ain't a thing Ah can't do if Ah
set mah mind to it" (N. Mailer).
· Не spoke with the flat ugly "a" and withered "r" of Boston Irish, and Levy looked
up at him and mimicked, "All right, I'll give the caaads a break and staaat playing"
(N. Mailer).
- onomatopoeia;
- word stress,
· "Не wished she would not look at him in this new way. For things
were changing, something was changing now, this minute, just when he thought
they would never change again, just when he found a way to live in
that changelessness" (R. P. Warren).
· "There was then a calling over of names, and great work of singeing, sealing,
stamping inking and sanding, with exceedingly blurred, gritty and undecipherable
results" (Ch. Dickens).
· "She was waiting for something to happen. Or for everything to unhappen" (T.
Howard).
· "(chickens) ...passed on into semi-naked pullet-hood and from that into dead
henhood" (Sh. Anderson).
3) Generalize the role of morpheme as a bound form in saturating the text with
additional meaning and mood (V.A. Kuharenko, p. 29).