A SIMPLE NEGATION: THE TOPIC OF IDENTITY IN A POST-COLONIAL SOCIETY

Abstract

This article focuses on the role and meaning of simple negation in postcolonial novels, examining how it functions within the broader context of postcolonial theory and literature. The aim of the article is also to analyse the theoretical-methodological and practical-teleological component of the pragma-discourse dimension of negation in the English-language post-colonial literary prose text through the disclosure of the formal, stylistic, discourse and functional specificity of negation as a pragmatic universal expressed by lexical-semantic (lexical structure of the text), structural-syntactic (syntactic structure of the text), contextual (discourse) means of language actualised in the text of the artistic narrative, according to the hierarchy of language levels of the post-colonial type of text in the mode of its lexicocentricity, syntacticocentricity, textocentricity and its interpretation as a holistic whole.