Shevelyova-Garkusha N. Rhythmic and Syntactic Organization of Poetic Speech: Linguo-stylistic and Linguo-synergetic Aspects (Case Study of the Texts of American Poetry of XX-XXI с.)

This research focuses on revealing the peculiarities of rhythmic and syntactic organization of contemporary American poetry within the theoretical framework of linguo-poetics, structural semiotics and synergetics. It has been proved that linguistic, stylistic and synergetic properties of syntactic constructions as well as their length and location in the verse lines of the poetic text determine four types of rhythmic and syntactical organization of poetic texts in modernist and postmodernist American poetry: laminar, reverse, syncopic and combined ones. Each of the type is predetermined by a theme and tonality of the text of a certain poetic school and helps to distinguish the specifics of literary-stylistic trends of modernist and postmodernist American poetry. Fractals as recurring types are based on certain configurations of the syntactic constructions within the text which enables to reveal the poetic school the text belongs to. Iconicity is regarded as a semiotic principle which imposes cognitive constraints on the formation of syntactic constructions in modern American poetic texts. Iconicity can be observed as the result of the laminar, reverse or, mainly, syncopic rhythmic and syntactic organization of the text based on enjambment, the expressive means and the line length. Similarity may be qualitative due to the verbal images and structural elements, thus, imitating topological, temporal relations and some characteristics of actions as direction, rapidness and pause. Key words: rhythmic and syntactic organization, iconicity, laminar, reverse, syncopic ways of organization, fractal, attractor, repeller.