Scheme of interpretation

Scheme of interpretation
1. Speak on the socio-cultural context containing some data about the historical situation, the author’s literary career, the literary trend, the author’s biography, his aesthetic credo;

2. Relate the plot of the text and comment on its denotative and thematic structure;

3. Analyze the composition of the text and its architectonics, point out various deviations from the traditional model: exposition – the beginning and development of the plot – culmination – denouement – end – epilogue.

4. Characterize the lexical level of the text: key and thematic words, the usage of colloquial and bookish words, borrowings, slang, neologisms, scientific words. Speak on the paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations of the words, their derivational links, syno­nymic and antonymic pairs and groups;

5. Characterize the stylistic level:

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   observe stylistically marked units: emotive, evaluative, im­age-bearing words and expressions, phraseological units and ex­pressive structures, graphical means of accentuation;
   
2. 
   analyse stylistic devices and their functions;
   
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   speak on the means of foregrounding: the convergence of stylistic devices, recurrence, contrast, strong positions of the text (the title, epigraph, culmination, end, defeated expectancy).
   
4. 
   find verbal signals of implicitness: stylistic devices, po­etic details, an implicit title and comment on their conceptual sig­nificance;
   
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   consider verbal signals of modality: evaluative words, epithets, characterological details, the author’s meditations, des­criptive contexts.
   

6. Comment on the pragmatic level: the author’s and the charac­ter’s images and the ways of their verbal actualization in the text. Discuss the role of descriptive contexts, dialogues, monolo­gues, represented speech, the author’s reasoning in representations of “linguistic personality”, his social, ethnic, psychological, individual characteristics;

7. Discuss the conceptual (cognitive) level, making conclusions about:

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  the process of conceptualization and categorization of the information contained in the text;
  
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  the usage of literary concepts as content-thematic and con­ceptual dominants of the text;
  
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  the author’s conceptual world picture, his evaluative atti­tude and aesthetic views.