Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Transformation of Cultural Concepts Within the Conceptual Sphere of a Literary Text (on the Material of the Short Story by R. Bradbury “the Smiling People”)

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Transformation of Cultural Concepts Within the Conceptual Sphere of a Literary Text (on the Material of the Short Story by R. Bradbury “the Smiling People”)

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (12)
Authors: Kononova, Inna V.
Contact information: Kononova, Inna V.:St. Petersburg State University of Economics 21 Sadovaya, St. Petersburg, 191011, Russia; E-mail:
Keywords: cognitive poetics; concept; conceptual sphere of a literary text; the individual conceptual sphere of an author; concept structure
Abstract: The article is written in the line with cognitive poetics, one of the actively developing fields of linguistic poetics. Cognitive poetics regards different stages of functioning of works of art, considered from the point of view of mental categories: the author (the individual conceptual sphere) – the artistic reality (the conceptual structure of a literary text) – the reader (the cognitive mechanisms of perception). The cognitive approach to the analysis of a literary text gives the possibility to describe the individual conceptual sphere of an author, which is understood as the mental base of a writer’s style, and to describe the transformation of the structure of cultural concepts under the influence of an author’s mentality
Pages: 2868-2874
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/19974