Abstract:
The nature and essence of the language image are considered from the standpoint
of modern cognitive linguopoetics, its differences from the general philological concepts of “image”
and “imagery” are shown. According to the authors’ idea, the language image is considered in line
with creative discursive activity. It is proved that language images integrating real ideas about the
world picture and the author’s emotional attitude to them synergetically create an ethno-cultural
aura of a literary text. Discourse, due to the multiplicity of its components, is a speech-thinking
platform for forming a language image. The latter is considered by us as a synergetic phenomenon
in the aspect of a multichannel derivative stimulus and a self-organizing phenomenon in open
systems of linguocreative thinking. The article substantiates that in a literary text a language
image is generated not by a real, but by a so-called communicative and aesthetically significant
event, i.e. a literary discourse — the denotative aura of language images. The analysis shows
that the language image is formed not only by the text itself, but also by various extralinguistic
factors (knowledge of the world, opinions, values) that play an important role in understanding,
interpreting and perceiving verbal images of a communicative event. Therefore, the work interprets
all the main (event and non-event) elements of the text’s discursive situation, forming a complex
language image. The extralinguistic factors determining the semantic architectonics of the internal
context and actively participating in the formation of the ethno-cultural shell of language images are revealed. Each of these images serves as a shadow cloud of the internal context, an element
of the ethno-cultural aura of the speech activity. In contrast to the existing stereotypes, according
to which the concept and image are considered products of different mental operations: the first
is analytical, and the second is synthetic, the article proves that the genesis of language image
is characterized by their fusion. At the initial stage, there is an analytical perception of the signs
of a denotative situation, and at the final stage, their synthesis. Ultimately, the genetic connection
of such phenomena as literary text, discourse and concept generates the ethno-cultural aura
of a pictorial-speech work.
