Lesson 1: Goals, objectives and methods of linguo-stylistic analysis of a literary text. Aim

2. Linguo-stylistic analysis of the text.
What is linguo- stylistic analysis of the text?
“Linguo-stylistic analysis of a text is the study of the role and functions of various linguistic means in conveying the content of the text, as well as the intention and style of the author. Studying the text from the point of view of linguio-stylistics, we determine with the help of what methods in its linguistic form the peculiarities of the author's worldview are reflected, expressed in the choice of the time and place of the work, in the characters of the heroes, in the structure and development of the plot. " (Nenarokova, 2018: 3)
In modern science and practice, two types of linguistic analysis of a literary text are presented - incomplete (partial) and complete. In the first case, it is mainly the linguistic dominant that forms the stylistic dominant and form the main author's idea with it.In the second case, units of all levels of the linguistic structure of the text are studied in their aesthetic unity and interaction. Linguo-stylistic analysis of the text is a complete analysis of the text.
Linguo-stylistic analysis of a literary text, supplemented by extralinguistic commentary and genre and stylistic characteristics, is the subject of our research.
3. Goals and objectives of the course "Linguo-stylislic analysis of literary text"
The purpose of the special course "Lingvo-stylistic analysis of a literary text" is to form the concept of the text as an object of scientific research and a subject of linguistic study from the standpoint of modern scientific knowledge in line with the synergetic-psychological, and communicative-pragmatic and cognitive paradigms.
During the course, students develop an idea of ​​the specifics of a literary text,the criteria according to which a particular text can be considered as literary one;discusses the difference between analysis and interpretation procedures; analyzes the reasons why the text needs interpretation. Students master the tools of modern linguistic and stylistic analysis, gaining basic information from various scientific fields, such as structural poetics, receptive aesthetics, narratology, and cognitive poetics. Throughout the course, a number of works of English and American literature are analyzed, the ability to see the text in all the diversity of its internal structure and external connections - context, subtexts, laws of the genre, etc. Each lesson consists of a discussion of the theoretical premises of the linguo-stylistic interpretation of a literary text and joint practical work of the teacher and students on the interpretation of one or more literary texts.