Prokopiv L. Verbalisation of Сontrastive Interpersonal Relations in the Ukrainian Postmodern Picture of the World - Qualifying scientific work in the form of a manuscript.
Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the speciality 035 Philology. Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University, Kamianets-Podilskyi, 2025. 179 p.
Modern sociolinguistic, linguistic-cultural, cognitive trends in the study of verbalisation of contrary interpersonal relations have led to the relevance of generalisation and the need to systematise contrastive markers in the linguistic pictures of the world of postmodern fiction characters. The scientific achievements of the humanities today have made it possible to describe verbal contrastive markers in certain linguistic and cultural scenarios.
The purpose of this thesis is to present the phenomenon of contrast through the verbalisation of interpersonal relations in the linguistic pictures of the world of characters in postmodern fiction texts.
The achievement of this goal was preceded by a number of tasks that the applicant solves: 1) to investigate the theoretical foundations, specificity, history of studying the problem of contrast in the linguistic pictures of the world of a fiction character, to determine the essential nature of the means and mechanisms of its naming; 2) to analyse a number of literary texts of the late early ХХІst century in order to select the means of character’s verbal and character nonverbal language that act as markers of opposition in linguistic picture of the world; 3) to clarify the typology of social statuses that are purposefully marked by the domestic authors of the analysed texts and to systematise structurally, pragmatically and semantically heterogeneous means of verbalising contrast in fiction; 4) to outline the ways of interaction between verbal and non-verbal markers of contrast and related categories of language and speech in literary and artistic discourse; 5) to determine the dominants of contrast in the author's artistic language of the early ХХІ century.
The object of study is the means of expressing contrast in the linguistic picture of the world of the characters in fiction. The subject of the study is the correlation of markers of contrast of a fictional character expressed by linguistic means. The source of the material selection is the literary texts of the ХХІ century by authors (M. Matios, Kapranov Brothers, H. Vdovychenko, O. Slonovska, I. Rozdobudko, S. Pantiuk, I. Karpa, R. Ivanychuk, S. Zhadan, M. Dochynets, etc.) who purposefully worked on the realistic coverage of the social and status characteristics of central and some secondary characters through the verbalisation of contrast. The scientific novelty of the results obtained in this thesis is that it is the first to collect and present as a system structurally, pragmatically and semantically heterogeneous markers of interpersonal relations contrast in the characters' speech.
The theoretical significance of the thesis lies in the fact that the study of verbal contrastive markers of different structure and semantics in the linguistic picture of the world of fictional characters has shown that the phenomenon of verbalisation of contrastiveness in interpersonal relations is a system organised by syntagmatic-paradigmatic relations between the subsystem of social statuses (syntagmatic component) and the subsystem of linguistic means of their expression (paradigmatic component) with elements of epidigmatic relations.
The correlation between certain groups of verbal markers of contrast in interpersonal relations of characters and discursive situations of their use and types of these statuses has been determined. The authors' individual priorities regarding the dominant use of contrastive markers in the analysed literary texts, as well as the use of certain means of expressing opposition in socially defined communicative situations, have been defined.
The results of the study are presented in the introduction, four chapters and conclusion.
The results of the study can be used in further scientific developments and curricula of a number of philological disciplines. New knowledge about the verbalisation of the contrast of interpersonal relations of fictional characters in postmodern prose is intended to highlight the cognitive foundations of the linguistic picture of the human world in different linguistic and cultural scenarios, and should also be of interest to manufacturers of linguistic computer software to supplement and refine their programmes. The results of the study open up the prospect of identifying and studying the verbalisation of oppositional relations of interpersonal relations of fictional characters and interaction between them in the Ukrainian linguistic culture.
