Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem (Dec 2019)
WORD ORDER AS AN EXPRESSIVE STYLISTIC MEANS IN THE POETIC LANGUAGE OF GERMAN ROMANTIC POETS
Abstract
Purpose. The given article is devoted to the determination of features of word order and the analysis of stylistic functions of various types of rearrangements in a sentence in German poetry. The subject of analysis is poetic texts of German romantic poets of the 19th century. The choice of texts of the Romantic period is not accidental, since it is in poetry that stylistic possibilities of the word order are manifested most vividly, and their effectiveness is enhanced by lexical and poetic means. Method or methodology of the work. The basis of the research is formed by the method of continuous selection in the choice of practical material, as well as the descriptive method of linguistic and stylistic analysis. Results. The results of the study showed that along with the usual grammatical function of rearrangements in the German language, the metric and stylistic functions, namely, the function of syntactic and stylistic emphasis of members in a simple sentence, acquire a primary role in poetry. Stylistic possibilities are most effectively and originally used in German poetry, closely interacting with emphasis as a poetic means. The author attracts the reader’s or listener’s special attention by putting the predicate in the unusual first or third place and the subject in the last place in the sentence. Moving beyond the verb frame is another possibility for stylistic emphasis of members in a sentence. Such variations are accompanied by a specific distribution of the communicative load of sentence members. The composition of the new is distributed both inside the sentence and at its end. Application area. The results of the research can be used at the lessons of Stylistics of the German Language, Text Interpretation, in seminars on the study of features of the language of German poetry, the syntactic organization of poetic works, and also in special courses on the syntax of poetic text.
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