Компонентный состав концептуальной категории "memory" и ее роль в смыслообразовании текстов современной прозы

Abstract

В статье рассматриваются компоненты концептуальной категории memory и авторские текстообразующие лексико-синтаксические приемы в произведениях современных американских писателей.

The article discusses the works of contemporary American writers, winners of the 2015-2017 PulitzerPrize: “The Sympathizer”, “Nothing Ever Dies” [Nguyen 2015, 2016]; “Underground Railroad” [Whitehead 2016];“Less” [Greer 2017]. The research aim is to reveal the correlation between the semantic content of the literary workrepresented by the concepts of a certain conceptual category and the production of the associative-semantic field(ASF) and lexico-syntactic features (lexical and syntactic “knots”) used in the text. Having studied at the initial stage two multi-genre works of the contemporary American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen “The Sympathizer”, “Nothing Ever Dies” [Nguyen 2015, 2016], the authors have posed a hypothesis that the conceptual category memory, formedwith the help of such concepts as ethics, memory, power, dual, global, participates in the formation of the plot of the work of fiction and fills it with certain semantic content.