Sydorenko I.
National Technical
University of Ukraine
“Kyiv Politechnic
Institute”, Ukraine
The notion of the author’s idiostyle as
an object of linguo-stylistc analysis
The issue of language of the personality and its
unique stylistic features always has been one of the fundamental in the
linguistic analysis. Consequently, the notion of the author’s individual style
became the object of investigation of many great scientists such as N.
Bolotnova, V. Vinogradov, G. Vinokur, N. Golovchenko, V. Kucharenko, B.
Larin, I. Tarasova. Almost all researches agree with V. Vinogradov who
determined individual style as complicated but structurally connected and
internally bonded system of specific stylistic means inherent in textual
activity of the certain author.
Grammatical
approach to the study of the language of the literary writing that predominated
at the beginning of the XX century didn’t reveal the whole essence of such
complex phenomenon as stylistics of literary speech. The general strategy of
modern linguistics of the text is the analysis of it as the communicative
system determined by such inalienable component as the author’s personality in
the totality of his psychological, sociocultural and cognitive peculiarities.
While it is true to say that in modern scientific environment common approaches
to the interpretation of the categories “idiostyle” and “individual speech of
the writer” in the context of linguo-stylistic analysis of the literary text
don’t exist.
According to the previous
analysis of linguistic approaches to the scientific research of idiostyle we
can separate six main approaches which, to our way of thinking, give the
fullest understanding and characteristics of individual style as a part of
stylistic system of the literary text. They are: systematically structural,
esthetically marked, imagery compositional, communicative, addressee directed,
functionally dominant.
Systematically structural
is characterized by structural study of the style of the literary text where
the central place belongs to the author’s image (M. Brandes,
V. Vinogradov, V. Grigoryev, V. Kucharenko, L. Novikov and others). One of
the basic tasks of clarifying the inner unity of stylistic means of literary
text, by V. Vinogradov, is the problem of author’s image speech structure.
Scientist indicates that the inner connection of all elements of the author’s
idiostyle creates some specific literary unity caused by the tendencies of the
development of the literary genres [4, p.107].
Contrary to the previous approaches to the study of
individual style, esthetically marked one is connected with the esthetic
modification of specific expressive author’s means as a precondition of the
formation of his individual method (M. Bahtin, B. Larin, O. Stavitskaya).
Individual style and individual creative consciousness
, according to M. Bahtin, aren’t defined only by the linguistic means. Style is
not a language in its narrow understanding but esthetic writer’s perception and
feeling of his writing as a tool of creating new literary reality [2, p. 177].
Representatives of imagery compositional approach
focus their attention on the originality of individual style from the point of
view of unique individual dynamics of speech forms, imagery transformation of
text creation and compositional methods of prosaic strophe forming (V. Vinogradov, G.
Vinokur, A. Domashnev, B. Larin,
G. Solganic, І. Shishkina). Style as personification studies G. Solganic who thinks that to define the peculiarities of individual style means to determine and describe them on the background of the
common, widespread. Scientist sees individual style in the prosaic strophe
forming and indentation division of compositional and syntactical structure of
the text [7, p. 231].
Communicative approach is considered by such
researches as N. Bolotnova, N. Golovanova, О. Selivanova, B. Chernyavskaya. N. Bolotnova links attention to the idiostyle with the communicative
approach to the text stydy. Individual style, which becomes apparent in textual
activity in the process of communication, reflects language culture, type of
thinking, thesaurus [3, pp. 15-21].
Addressee directed approach is connected with the
problem of effectiveness of author’s textual activity concerning addressee
taking into consideration specificity of their speech personality (I. Arnold, А. Bondarenko, V. Samohina (Dmitriyenko)). Text as a message is examined in the works by I. Arnold.
The researcher believes that stylistic analysis must be carried out basing on
the reader’s own perception of the author’s text [1, p.28].
Functionally dominant approach based on the stylistic
analysis of the text and revealing special idiostylistic concepts-dominants and
different language ways of it representation is used in the works by L.
Vigotskij, N. Golovchenko, A. Tarasova. The aim of idiostyle description is in
its correlation with the notion “concept”. We must interpret individual style
as the unity of mental and linguistic, concepts and cognitive structures of its
language embodiment [8 pp. 9-10].
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