Abstract
The article highlights peculiarities of the author’s individual style investigation as a part of literary text stylistics. Main attention is given to the approaches to individual style study and its place in linguistic researches of literary texts. The research aim is obtained with the help of scientific methods: generalization, conceptualization and comparison of the directions of idiostyle study in order to define the most appropriate approach for outlining the idiostylistic peculiarities of the literary texts authors. The analysis of early and current publications exploring the idiostylistic peculiarities of the author’s speech is presented. Ten basic tendencies in idiostyle investigation are separated, analyzed and compared. The conducted exploring provides the possibility to reveal that studying the language of literary texts through the prism of the author's speech analysis is one of the most relevant tasks of modern linguistics. A comparative analysis indicates that one of the most common areas of its study today is the analysis of the author's conceptual sphere in combination with the study of stylistic techniques, syntax and individual vocabulary. The combination of several approaches within a single study makes it possible to describe the peculiarities of idiostyle of a literary text writer and provide a complete understanding of the selection and synthesis principles of linguistic means by a certain author, reveal the prevailing features and outline a prototype of the individual speech model. The prospect of research is considered in defining the approaches to the author’s idiostyle study in dramatic genre.
Highlights
The language of literary works has always been the subject of research since the formation of philological thought as a science
“individual style” and “idiostyle” synonymous, but some still state that notion of “idiostyle” is more modern than “individual style” since it means new and broader, according to its content, linguistic phenomenon (Bolotnova 2007, Chernyk 2016)
In some studies (Bezrebra, 2007; Brailko, 2005; Danyljchuk, 2006; Gryshchenko, 2013; Kotkova, 2017; Pankratova, 2009), we find the combination of linguostylistic approach with other abovementioned approaches
Summary
The language of literary works has always been the subject of research since the formation of philological thought as a science. At the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century the scholars were focused mainly on the types and means of formal connectivity of literary speech as well as on the peculiarities of its structural organization and syntactic filling within one text (Budde, Scherba, Shpet) which did not allow to describe such a complex phenomenon as the style of literary language thoroughly and comprehensively. The introduction of the concepts of “linguistic consciousness” (Humboldt, Potebnja) and “linguistic picture of the world” (Humboldt, Weissgerber) into linguistics created the preconditions for studying the literary text as an integrated structure, and for its perception and study as the specific anthropocentric communicative model determined primarily by the peculiarities of the author’s worldview and language. The analysis of the stylistic system of the literary text through the prism of author’s linguistic personality (the term being introduced by Karaulov in 1989) became one of the integrant aspects of the literary language studying. There is still no defined and unified classification of the approaches to the study and interpretation of the category of “individual style” of the author of the literary text in today’s scientific environment which determines the novelty of given article
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