Moukatajeva Y. German prose shvank: lingvo-stylistic, pragmatic and cognitive aspekts

Object of research is German prose shvank of XV-XVII centuries as a text type and a discourse. Purpose of research is complex analysis of German prose shvank as a text type and a discourse, definition of the linguistic status of shvank as the system of interconnected and dependent stylistic, pragmatic and cognitive characteristics. Methods of research include structural and semantic, systematic and structural analyses, method of conceptual analysis, comparative, compositional and stylistic, informative and architectonical methods, method of text modeling, stylistic and linguistic experiment. Scientific novelty consists in the first systematic research of shvank with inseparable unity of linguistic and stylistic, linguistic and pragmatic, linguistic and cognitive aspects; author’s speech strategies are described on a material of the small satirical form; frame schemes of text concepts are constructed on a base of informative architectonic conception; the concept of direct, inverted and converted formation in satirical text is offered; linguistic model is developed and the concept of shvank is specified. The conducted research has theoretical value for developing of linguo-pragmatics and linguo-cognitology, theory of communication, of author's speech strategy, of text concepts, coding theory in art texts. Practical value of received results is determined by possibility of their use in lecture courses of stylistics of German language (sections “Style and its Modeling in Communicative and Speech Activities”, “Speech Means of Figurativeness and Expressivity”, “Art Style”), in a special course “Art Text in Pragmatic and Communicative Aspects”, in a special course under the theory and practice of interpretation of texts, and also in work on course and degree projects.