Boyko Y. Aesthetic evaluation in English romantic lyrics: a linguo-cognitive analysis.

This thesis focuses on the axiologically tinged notional implications which are characteristic of English romantic poets’ cognitive style. These implications are revealed via a comprehensive analysis of aesthetic evaluation which is verbalized in poetic texts and by modeling the conceptual space of aesthetic evaluation THE BEAUTIFUL / THE UGLY. The poliparadigmatic methodology of the research combines three approaches: linguocultural, linguopoetic and cognitive. The thesis suggests a classification of aesthetic evaluation nominative means, the model of an associative-semantic field of verbal operators of aesthetic evaluation “the beautiful / the ugly”, the identification of axiologically charged literary concepts, the construction of the conceptual space of aesthetic evaluation THE BEAUTIFUL / THE UGLY as a two-layer model (notionally-evaluative and figuratively-evaluative). Each layer is modelled in a particular way (as a frame, as a notional field or in terms of conceptual metaphor), which has made it possible to determine the notional implications characteristic of the all-human, ethnocultural and poets’ evaluative worldviews as embodied in English romantic lyrics.