Landscape text cognitive attractor as a means of transmitting the theme of an artistic text (based on the novel by T. Kenelli "The daughters of mars")

Abstract

The topic of the study is landscape text cognitive attractors a means of transmitting the theme of an artistic text. The subject of the study is landscape text cognitive attractor. The article discusses the concept of cognitive text attractors within the theory of text worlds. The aim of the study is to reveal the possibilities of using landscape text attractors when transmitting a literary text theme. The method used in the work is cognitive-hermeneutic method. An author, creating a text world, is interested in a greater number of readers and, as a consequence, in a greater number of text worlds being created on the basis of his novel. The elements that catch and hold the readers' attention are text cognitive attractors. The author of the article proves that any text landscape cognitive attractor possesses a potential in revealing the text theme. Providing landscape descriptions with certain elements, the author of an artistic text leads the reader to the upcoming events, setting the tone for the whole forthcoming action. The results of the study can be applied within creating courses of lectures in cognitive linguistics, when writing course or qualification works and as the basis for further research.