Gnidec U. Specific of communication in the literature for children and youth (on the base of the modern German novel).

The dissertation is the first in Ukrainian and foreign literary studies integrated research of the specific of communication in the German literature for children and youth, the change in the communicative paradigm in 70th of XX. and up to nowadays both on the internal and external textual levels of investigation. Dominant aspect of investigation is the definition of literature for children and youth and its communicative specific in the socio-historical context of its developing in the German-speaking countries. The main principles in the realizing of communication in the literature for children and youth are: binarity, equality and self-suffciency of the communicants, visualizing of the child's image as ideal recipient, as literary phenomenon that is is influenced by its own nature as direct centre of cause and effect relationship. The study presents an analysis of works of such prominent German writers as U. W?lfel, P.H?rtling, O. Preu?ler, M. Ende, J. Schubiger. The analysis is aimed at revealingthe specific features of the communicative process on the internal textual level.