Kupchyshyna Y. Poetics of Defamiliarization in English Literary Texts of the XX-XXI centuries: Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects

This thesis focuses on revealing stylistic devices and cognitive mechanisms which ensure the formation of verbal images and determine the effect of defamiliarization in the English literary texts of the XX-XXI centuries. It has been determined that defamiliarization is the author's stylistic device which is created by different types of foregrounding with the aim of concentrating the reader's attention and emotions on the object of perception from an unusual angle of the narrator's vision (anthropocentric and animalistic subjects of narration). The poetics of defamiliarization is defined as the unity of form and content of prose texts created by the linguistic and cognitive mechanisms of revealing novel and implied conventional senses of the prose texts, as well as by narrative devices. The major manifestations of the defamiliarized world comprehension are considered to be biomorphic, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic metaphors which denote the defamiliarized objects via the physical experience of people/animals. The cognitive operation of modification is defined as predominant in the creation of the defamiliarized images because it is aimed at the transformation of the conventional conceptual metaphor, which leads to the emergence of novel senses. Key words: defamiliarization, foregrounding, image, anthropocentric subject of narration, animalistic subject of narration, conceptual metaphorical scheme, author's picture of the world.