THE MUSIC CONCEPT ACTUALISING IN LITERARY TEXTS

Abstract

The article considers the music realia in the English literature. Special attention is given to the lexical and semantic means of music concept actualisation in the English literary texts.

A multidisciplinary approach allowed considering the music as an integral culture element in the system of humanities knowledge correlating in close connection with language by its nature and having a substantial potential to be represented verbally in English literary texts through musical nominations. General scientific methods of analysis, synthesis and observation, combined with linguistic methods, linguistic terms and concepts adherent to the research topic are used (analysis of dictionary definitions) during this research; the music’s role in culture is determined in the general historical aspect (linguocultural method); the structure of the lexico-semantic field of the concept “music” is investigated (component analysis); the main categories of the lexico-semantic field of music are revealed (distributive analysis); musical phenomenon verbalisers in English literary texts are classified (taxonomy method).

The nomination of musical realia in English literary texts is supplemented by additional aspects of the verbalisation of musical art, which are actualised at the level of direct and indirect nominations in lexical-semantic groups of music. Based on the illustrative material analysis of lexical and semantic means, the criteria for verbalising indirect categories of musical realia, represented in fiction by name, genre, representative and representation means, are identified. Analysed the illustrative material, it was also found that indirect nominations of musical realia can be explicit or implicit, expressed only by concepts adherent to the musical context. Implicit lexemes are not recorded in dictionaries, they are actualised in speech and decoded on the basis of previous knowledge.