Protsenko O. Implicative Space of the American Poetry of the XX Century: Linguistic and Cognitive Aspect

This research focuses on revealing linguistic and cognitive properties of the formation of the implicative space of contemporary American poetic texts. The study provides an inferential analysis of indicators of the implicit senses. The role and place of the components of implicit senses are defined according to the quality and quantity of their indicators. Archetypal symbols, allegorical images, symbols, parables, titles, stylistically marked or salient units of the text, its specific syntactic constructions are considered as indicators of implicates. It is proved that the dominant means in the formation of implicates on the pre-textual level are analogical and contrastive types of mapping, on the intra-textual – constructive and substitutive, on the extra-textual level – the narrative type of mapping. The integrative model of the implicative space grounds on the mechanisms employed in the formation of its components on different levels of a poetic text. This model helps to define linguistic and cognitive aspects of construing the reality in the American modernist and postmodernist poetic texts.