Paragraph-related means in M. Petrosyan's novel "The House Where…"

Active searches for solutions to relevant communicative tasks lead to the emergence of new ways of linguistic expression of statements, as well as to a reconsideration of existing methods, filling them with new meaning. The principles of constructing a modern text (such as intermediality, allusiveness, rhizomaticity, polycody, collagism, etc.) manifest themselves in various linguistic and paralinguistic phenomena, one of which is paragraph semantics. The subject of the study is the paragraph semantic means in M. Petrosyan's novel "The House in Which..." as methods of graphic variation of text: punctuation (singraphomics), font (supragraphics), and planar (topographic) variation. Paragraph semantic means, complementing the verbal component of the written text, are designed to more accurately encode the meaning of the statement in the process of its generation and decode it in the process of perception. The main methods used in this work are descriptive methods, including : observation of paralinguistic material, its systematization, and interpretation. The material was collected using a continuous sampling method. The conducted research showed that M. Petrosyan's novel "The House in Which..." is characterized by a high degree of representation of various paragraph semantic means, through which a unique visual appearance of the text is formed. The diversity of paragraph semantic means used in the novel (italics, bold font, spacing, imitation of handwritten text, capitalization, line spacing, planar variation of text, tables) is a natural result and reflection of the ongoing processes in modern Russian language, such as an increase in personal initiative, language liberalization, and a desire for linguistic play and variability. Paragraph semantic means perform various functions in artistic works: they mark changes in genre and narrative register, provide access to the sphere of memories and/or emotions of the character, denote prosodic characteristics of speech, and emphasize the polyphony of the work and its intertextuality

Art · Paragraph · Political science · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Law

• Visual and Digital Rhetoric

  Open Access•Nataliia Popova, Vladyslav Halstyan et al.•The Journal of V N Karazin…•2023

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