Relations of the concept of a literary text and the image of a literary text.

The notions of a literary text concept and a literary text image.

In literary theory, a text is any object that can be "read," whether this object is a work of literature. It is a coherent set of signs that transmits some kind of informative message. This set of symbols is considered in terms of the informative message's content, rather than in terms of its physical form or the medium in which it is represented.

So, the image of a literary text is that we perceive and revise through the text, the author’s concept, his point of view, his massage to the reader.

The concept of a literary text is what we produce after reading, this is our understanding of the text, the concept which we work out.

Their differential features on the criteria as the follows:

Approaches to study Concept.

Theoretical Methods (Approaches to understand the phenomenon of Сoncept) are not to be mixed up with the Empirical Methods of research (techniques to analyze and interpret it).
The problem of understanding Concept concerns with the question of peculiar relations of Meaning (under-individual, general for a group, fixed in dictionaries understanding, definition of a word – linguistic substituter of an object, thing, phenomenon which becomes the linguistic name of a concept) and Sense (individual understanding of a phenomenon). Meanings of words form Objective semantics. Associations to them form Subjective semantics. Peculiarities of correlation of objective and subjective semantics help to understand the phenomenon of a definite concept. Thus, each method, more or less, concerns with studying objective and subjective semantics (for example, through studying contextual peculiarities of textual organization to understanding its implication (Conceptual Analysis, Interpretation of Text) or through comparative studying of linguistic meanings and individual associations to interpreting personal concepts (Associative Experiment)).

Approaches of home cognitive linguistic studies:

1. cultural (U. Stepanov), (Ex.: “it is a clot of culture in human conciousness”)

2. lingua-cultural (S. Vorkachev, G. Slishkin), (Cultural Linguistics refers to a related branch of linguistics that explores the relationship between language, culture, and conceptualization.)

3. logical (N. Arutyunova, R. Pavilenis),(refers to the logical thinking)

4. semantic-cognitive as the leading one (H. Kubryakova, Z. Popova, I. Sternin, N. Boldirev, A. Babushkin). (concept as a product of cognitive process)

Approaches of occidental cognitive studies:

1. psychological – stimulistic (A. Fisher),

2. action-psychological (J. Piajet),

3. cognitivistic (G. Bruner, U. Neisser);

4. linguistic – cognitive semantic (V. Evans, G. Lakoff),

5. cognitive grammatical (R. Langacker, Ch. Fillmore).

The methods which is used in cognitive linguistic research:
1. The method of Associative experiment (method of psychology, psycholinguistics; introduced on the first steps of empirical psychological research by V.Vundt): the study of semantics which is differentiated as objective semantics (which is fixed in dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference books) and subjective (associative meanings of people as peculiarities of their perception of the phenomena which have their linguistic names; i.e. responses (associations) to the stimuli (lexical representatives of the phenomena)).
2. The method of Semantic Differential (Ch.Osgood, a psycholinguist): the analysis of the cognitive-emotive perception of a phenomenon on the base of the responders’ assessments of the qualities and characteristics of it.
3. The method of Conceptual analysis (L.V.Babenko, U.V.Kazarin): the method is widely used in the study of the concepts of a literary text; it combines certain analysis of the concept and system of concepts of a literary text as a metaphor (or metaphors), includes psycholinguistic analysis of syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations of the language elements used in the text and results in building a model of system of concepts of the text and interpreting it.
4. Interpretation of Text.
5. Analysis of the vocabulary meanings of the linguistic name and associative names of a concept.

6. The method of complex psycholinguistic speech analysis, etc.

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9. Method of Conceptual Analysis
The Method of Conceptual Analysis is widely used in the analysis of literary works. It was introduced to the home cognitive linguistic research by the Russian linguists L.V.Babenko and U.V.Kazarin. The method implies the following steps of the research of the conceptual system/sphere of a literary text.
1. Steps of the analysis:
2. Distinguishing of before-text presuppositions which were important for the formation of conceptual space of the text under analysis such as
- the time and place of creating it (historical, cultural, social peculiarities);
- the name of the author (some biographical features reflected or influenced a certain author’s conceptual position);
- the role of an epigraph (a certain motive, supposition to be comprehended at the time of reading and interpreting the content, context and implication), etc.
3. Analysis of the semantics of the title and of its semantic radius in the text.
4. Conducting a psycholinguistic experiment:
- distinguishing a number of the key words of the text and analysis of their semantics (cognitive linguistic sphere);
- identifying repeated words which correlate with the key words paradigmatically and syntagmatically and analysis of the peculiarities of their relations (cognitive grammatical sphere);
- revealing the main key word of the text – a lexical representative of the leading concept of the work (cognitive linguistic sphere);
- distinguishing lexical thematic groups with different expressive power, i.e. analysis of the lexical structure/composition of the text (cognitive emotive sphere).
5. Description of the Sphere of Concepts of the text under analysis (or a version – of the works of an author) which implies generalization of generalizing of all the contexts the key words (‘bearers’ of the conceptual meaning, sense, essence) are used in. the aim of that is to interpret all the possible characteristic proprieties of the concept under analysis (its attributes, predicates, associations, figurative images, etc.).
6. Modeling of the structure of the Sphere of Concepts:
- distinguishing of the nucleus of the Sphere (basic cognitive propositional phenomenon and its linguistic representative);
- around nucleus zone (main lexical representatives);
- closest periphery (image associations);
- farthest periphery (subjective modal meanings, senses).

The method allows to comprehend the conceptual message of a literary text, its idea, personality of the author, his world view; distinguish existential cultural, historical, personal, etc. values, motives, principles and perceptions of the world.