Mechanisms of Language Game Representation (The Case Study of Literary Text)

The purpose of this research is to study the mechanisms of representation of language game. The methodological basis of the study is the theoretical postulates of psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics related to the concept of “mechanism”. The material of the study is the Russian-language novel by E. Nekrasova “Kalechina-Malechina”, on the basis of which the mechanisms of perception of reality that form the gamemes of the language game and their specificity are analysed. Aspects of the linguistic mechanisms of interpreting reality at the lexical-grammatical and phrasal levels in the speech activity of characters in the context of a fiction are revealed. It is established that the linguistic means of linguocreative meaning-making, due to the variation of the expression plane or the content plane, attract the recipient’s attention to the paradoxical nature of judgments, external alogism that hides contextual and extra-contextual connections that are important for understanding the writer’s artistic conception. The role of semantics, syntax, style and rhetoric in the game transformation of lexical units that actualise, destroy or discredit the features of the depicted in the light of the author’s view of the object is confirmed.