Marina O. Paradoxicality in Modern English Poetic Discourse: Cognitive and Semiotic Dimension

The dissertation establishes a new cognitive paradoxology facet to explore paradoxicality manifestations in modern English poetic discourse. The paper defines paradoxicality as a cognitive discursive category modelled on the basis of "fuzzy set" principle, which predetermines the elasticity of its boundaries and constant accessibility for new members. A number of categorial features, related to certain categorial foci (contradiction, unusualness, boundedness, anomality and mobility), structure the category. They are actualized to a different extent in multimodal poetic discourse through paradoxical poetic forms. The latter are multimodal construals, incorporating preconceptual, conceptual, verbal and non-verbal facets.