Istomina O. Verbal Manifestation of the Concept CONSUMPTION in French Social Problem Novels of the Second Half of the 20th Century

This dissertation focuses on revealing semantic, cognitive, and pragmatic dynamics pertinent to the unfolding of the concept CONSUMPTION in French social problem novels of the second half of the 20th century. It has been established that the concept CONSUMPTION, unfolding as a megaconcept in each Georges Perec’s, Elsa Triolet’s, Christiane Rochefort’s, Henri Troyat’s novels, acquires the status of a concept-constant on the intertextual level. It has been determined that ideological meaning of the textual concept CONSUMPTION is shaped by such concepts as: NOVELTY, VALUE, WEALTH, PASSION, BEAUTY, PLASTIC, ADVERTISING wich are identified in the novels of the abovementioned authors. Specific features of the contexts that reproduce manipulative impact of consumer ideology in characters’ dialogical communication have been elucidated, while rhetoric and pragmatic means of achieving this impact in French social novels have benn outlined.