THE PECULIARITIES OF PARADOXICALITY CONSTRUING IN MODERN ENGLISH POETIC DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article focuses on revealing the peculiarities of paradoxicality construing in Modern English poetic discourse in the light of interdiscursivity. The paper defines paradoxicality as a cognitive discursive category in cognitive and semiotic unity of its content and form, modelled on the basis of «fuzzy set» principle, which predetermines the elasticity of its boundaries and constant accessibility for new members. In its turn, interdiscursivity is an interaction of poetic discourse with different genres of non-fiction discourse, i.e. legal, medical, Internet-discourse and the discourse of news. In Modern English poetic discourse interdiscursivity governs variation of paradoxicality category realization from micro- to megaparadoxical poetic forms – impossible poetic worlds – as well as predetermines their construing. Paradoxical poetic forms are multimodal construals, incorporating preconceptual, conceptual, verbal and non-verbal facets. Each facet is constructed and reconstructed on the verge of two or more modalities of modern British and American poetic discourse – verbal (poetic texts), visual (paintings accompanying poetic texts), auditory (poetic discourse as an outcome of videogames or street noise’s acoustic environment and / or rhythm
o current musical genres) and / or audiovisual (videoclips – screened or animated versions of poetic texts; poetic readings).