Multimodal perceptual image and linguistic means of its manifestation in an English-language literary text

Abstract

The article discusses the problem of multimodal perceptual image in the literary text as a language means of conveying the interaction and reciprocity of perceptual sensations obtained through several senses and manifesting an integral multimodal image. The language manifestation of the multimodality of perception is understood as a way to express in a language the results of the perception by several senses at the same time. The purpose of the article is to identify language means of manifestation of the processes of multimodal perception in a literary text. The study is carried out from the perspective of cognitive stylistics, i.e. considering stylistic devices that manifest multimodal perception as a means of knowledge representation. «The Pebble in the Sky» by A. Azimov served as an example of a literary text characterized by an abundance of perceptual vocabulary per text unit. The component analysis, lexical definition analysis, contextual analysis and linguo-stylistic analysis result in the classification of perceptual vocabulary and stylistic means manifesting multimodal perceptual image.

Keywords

• perception
• perceptual modality
• multimodal perception
• multimodal perceptual image
• literary text
• synesthesia
• perceptual vocabulary