Grishchenko Y. Cognitive and Pragmatic Aspect of Poetry Discursiveness in English and American Verses of the 17th - 20th Centuries.

The thesis triggers the cognitive and pragmatic aspect of discursiveness revealed in English and American poetry. The research material covers a period from the 17th to the 20th century. The paper reveals on the peculiarities of discursiveness in English and American poetry of different poetical genres (ode and lyric poetry), themes, compositions and architectonics. Discursiveness is investigated through the prism of speech acts functioning in poetry composition. Discursiveness of poetry is defined in this paper as a correlation of composition, architectonics and speech acts in ode and lyrical verses. The research results contain the schematic representation of English and American ode and lyric poetry. The comparative diachronic analysis of discursiveness of ode and lyric poetry was undertaken.