Cognitive-linguocultural specifics of the implementation of novel genre features in Kazuo Ishiguro's “The buried giant”

   The article is devoted to the analysis of chronotope, a means of implementing novel genre features, presenting it at the conceptual level in the form of “space-time continuum” (STC) as a unit of complex multiaspect knowledge, which includes the unity of the concepts “space-time-event”. The cognitive context for understanding the core of the cognitive matrix “space-time continuum” is the conceptual-thematic domains represented by a set of basic concepts.

   The aim of the article is to define the cognitive and national-specific peculiarities of the concept “space-time continuum” to reveal the realization of the novel genre properties in “The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro.

   Based on the conceptual analysis, linguocultural analysis and cognitive-matrix modeling the research helps to extend the scientific understanding of an artistic work as a unit of multiaspect knowledge presented in the form of cognitive matrix with the conceptual-thematic domains (individual-private, socio-cultural, mythological, philosophical-moral) reflecting the author’s understanding the reality. The author constructs the world which reflects the author’s intention and represent the interconnection of collective and individual knowledge. The theoretical and practical significance is the possibility to implement the cognitive matrix “space-time continuum” as the model of philological analysis of artistic texts in cognitive linguistics, cognitive poetics, and linguocultural studies.

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