Наративна інтерпретація смислових імплікатів у текстах неожанру misery lit

Abstract

The article aims at an overview and interpretation of the meaning of misery lit texts. Attention is paid to the definition of the category “textual meaning” provided by native and foreign linguists. Communicative situations in which narrator’s intentions are realized have been described and analyzed. These are communicative situations which presuppose the reaction of inducement, despair and protest. Semantics of inducement, despair and protest is rendered by lexical and stylistic means. The latter include epithets, metaphors, inversion, parallel constructions, repetitions and rhetorical questions.