The Perceptual Structure of the Poetic Text: On the Terms of the Research

The article presents an analysis of the basic concepts used in modern perceptual linguistic studies with the aim of developing a theoretical and methodological basis for a new direction, in which the phenomenon of perceptiveness is considered in the aspect of text generation. To achieve the aim, in the introduction and in the first part of the article, a brief overview of the main works describing the current state of perceptual linguistics and its separate areas (discursive, linguistic, comparative, experimental, etc.) is made. It is emphasized that perceptiveness must be considered as a factor of text generation and a text category whose expression is directly related to the cultural tradition, the literary trend (direction) and the individual author's worldview. In the second part, key terms of perceptual linguistics used in the analysis of literary texts are identified and described: perceptual unit, perceptual semantics, perceptual picture of the world. Perceptual units are defined as linguistic (lexical and syntactic) means of expression of a perceptual (literary) image. The basis for their classification is the mode of perception: vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Special attention is paid to perceptual image as a form of a literary image that receives a specific lexical and grammatical content in the individual author's model of the world. Perceptual image is a "tool" for analyzing literary perceptiveness. In the third, main part of the article, the necessity of introducing the term perceptual structure of a poetic text into scientific discourse is substantiated, and its status is determined. It is stated that perceptual structure implies the actualization of the functional and stylistic aspect of the expression of perceptual semantics in a text. The concept of perceptual structure is defined as follows: (1) it is a set of perceptual units of different text levels that represent the individual author's perceptual picture of the world and are analyzed in the aspect of text generation; (2) it is a system of aesthetically significant perceptual images (in their interaction and interdependence) that form the literary space of a text and are conditioned by the cultural tradition, the literary trend (direction) and the individual author's worldview. The results indicate that the introduction of the term perceptual structure of a poetic text will: (1) present literary perceptiveness as a complex semantic structure in which all elements are in a relationship of interconnection and interdependence; (2) update the text-generating function of perceptual units of different levels of a text; (3) use additional tools in the philological analysis of a text.

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