HOMO LOQUENS IN V. DOMONTOVYCH’S METALINGUAL REFLECTION

Iryna SAIEVYCH,
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Ukrainian Language Department,
Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University;
18/2 Bulvarno-Kudriavska St., Kyiv, 04053, Ukraine;
e-mail: i.saievych@kubg.edu.ua
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0761-4999

Heading: THE WORD IN A WORK OF ART
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The article is devoted to the manifestation of the peculiarities of the metalanguage in V. Domontovich’s (V.P. Petrov’s) novels “Doctor Seraficus” and “The Girl with a Bear”. The researcher has made observations on communicative situations, the components of which appear as objects of the narrators’ metalanguage reflection. The author of the article has summarized the problems of metalanguage comments and concluded that all modes of language existence (language, speech, communication) which in belles-lettres texts primarily acquire an aesthetic dimension have become the focus of the research. The author has emphasized that reflection on the characters’ speech activity is aimed at revealing their essential characteristics and performs a cognitive function, filling the gaps in the author’s and reader’s background knowledge. The researcher has suggested that metalanguage commentaries and the concept of language in general are predetermined by ontological and epistemological experience of the author who reflects on language on the verge of the scientifically objective and the figurative-associative, organically combining ontological and epistemological experience (philological, philosophical, anthropological) with his artistic comprehension of reality.
Key words: metalanguage function, aesthetic function, metalanguage, metalanguage reflection, metalanguage commentary, communicative situation, language activity, V. Domontovych.

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