Filonenko N. Syntactic Organisation of the Contemporary French Fictional Prose Texts: Cognitive, Lingual and Synergetic Aspects

The thesis deals with the study of syntactic organisation of the contemporary French fictional text, implements the integrative investigation of syntactic systems and structures of French novels, identifies the main text-forming dominants of their self-organisation from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and lingual synergetics, proposes a new approach to the research of the French fictional prose text syntax through the integration of cognitive, lingual and synergetic aspects, presents the conceptual analysis of syntactic units, grounds two new terms as well as investigates synergistic properties and conceptual characteristics of subjects and predicate constructions, elucidates cognitive and synergetic role of attractors in the fictional text structure, proves the validity of the term "syntactic concept".