Nociception and Its Linguocreative Potential in Artistic-Aesthetic Representation

Abstract

One of the perspectives in the development of linguistics is investigating the role that the sensory-perceptual system plays in the linguocreative activity of an individual. The present paper analyzes specificity of verbal conceptualization of nociception, or pain, in the artistic experimental discourse. The novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" (2005) by the contemporary American writer J.S. Foer has been selected as the research material. The plot of this book is based on the facts of several catastrophes of world significance – the terrorist attack in New York on September 11, 2001, the Second World War, and the nuclear bombing in Japan. Among its main themes are the tragic fates of people who are victims of these catastrophes and the physical and psychological pain they suffered. In this work, we apply the method of discursive-parametric analysis of linguistic creativity. The use of this method results in establishing linguistic innovations (perceptual collocations, phraseological modifications, creative metaphors, syntactic anomalies, etc.) that emerge in the artistic experimental discourse. According to the research findings, both the formation and functioning of these linguistic innovations depend on such macroparameters as "the time of publication", "the subtype of discourse", "the subject/plot", and "main characters". Of special interest are also multimodal neologisms, which are created as an integration of language signs with visual-graphic means in the novel under consideration.