The thesis is devoted to the linguocultural study of the narrator 's literary image in modern Amerindian prosaic texts applying the complex of interdisciplinary approaches such as linguocultural studies, ethnolinguistic studies, narrative studies, semiotic studies and linguopoetic studies.
The topicality of the thesis is grounded on the general focus of linguopoetological, linguocultural, narratological and linguosemiotic studies on the complex investigation of the literary image of the prosaic text, revealing the means of embodiment in different its levels the ethnocultural and mythological ways of understanding and perception of the world by the concrete ethnos through the prism of literary images, the image of the narrator in particular.
The object of the research is the image of the narrator in modern English Amerindian prose in the linguistic and cultural perspective.
The subject is the ethnocultural nature of the different types of narrators in modern English Amerindian prosaic texts.
The purpose of the study is in the complex study of linguocultural features of the narrator’s image in modern English Amerindian prosaic texts through the prism of the ethnocultural ornamentalism.
The novels of the novelists – N. S. Momaday, L. M. Silko, L. Erdrich, L. Hogan, L. Owens – constitute the material of investigation with a total of 3818 pages, in which the image of the narrator unfolds in different ethno-narratives and influences the ethnospecificity of the narratives of the texts under analysis.
The novelty of the work is determined firstly by the fact that the analysis of ethnocultural specifics of the narration of English Amerindian prosaic texts is studies in complex, taking into account theoretical developments in linguopoetics, ethnolinguistics, linguosemiotics, narratology, linguoculturology; the notions of "the narrator of ethnocultural narrative", "ethnonarrative" and "ethnopoetics", "linguopoetic eclectism" are specified in the given work. Secondly, by means of applying the methods of linguopoetics, linguoculturology, ethnolinguistics, multimodal linguistics and narratology, the principles of the theory of the narrator's literary image in ethnocultural narrative are formulated; by means of a set of approaches, such as linguocultural, ethnolinguistic and narrative, the types of the narrator in ethnocultural narratives are suggested in the thesis.
