Scenery unit of literary text: modern approaches and research perspectives

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern approaches to scenery unit study as a component of literary text in order to determine its essence in the context of other types of descriptive units (portrait and interior) and the degree of its study in linguistics. By the method of analytical review of works, investigating scenery unit, a number of relevant approaches to the consideration of such a component are distinguished (system and structural, typological, functional, linguocultural, linguocognitive, text linguistics, information theory). Further-more, known typologies of such a unit are considered as well as their classification types are characterized (semantic type and its varieties, grammatical type and its varieties, functional type and its varieties). Besides, functional loading of numerous expressive language means in the noted type of descriptive fragment both for the realization of the author’s message and for its perception by the reader is stated. As a result, significance of linguocognitive approach to scenery unit analysis is emphasized due to which the revealed frame organization of its content, the central component of which is conceptual metaphor, can be proved.