Stoyanova I. Discourse of Antiutopia (based on the English, Ukrainian and Russian languages)

The thesis focuses on the contrastive analysis of the discourse of antiutopia as a specific type of interpersonal speech activity in the aggregate of intra- and extralingual parameters of its communicative organization and the dynamics of its functioning in the English, Ukrainian and Russian belles-lettres texts of the XXth century. Discourse of antiutopia has been distinguished as a certain kind of communication, its main distinctive features, its place and status among other types of discourse have been determined, the peculiarities of the role structure within the discourse in question have been analysed in the languages of diverse structure. The universal and differential characteristics of the conceptual space structure of the discourse under study and the peculiarities of its verbalization have been explicated in the languages of comparison. The communicative strategies and tactics of communicants’ interaction within the discourse of antiutopia have been described. Common and specific means of realization of communicative strategies having an impact on the addressee have been traced.