THE REALIZATION OF THE CATEGORY OF ANTHROPOCENTRICITY IN POSTMODERN FICTION DISCOURSE: LINGUOSYNERGETIC ASPECT

Abstract

The article deals with peculiarities of postmodern realization of anthropocentricity discourse category in linguosynergetic aspect. The linguosynergetic approach allows revealing the new parameters of this discursive category functioning in the discourse as an open system. The relevance of this category for the process of discourse self-organization is proved, as it reflects the essence of the attractor of a discourse. Special attention is paid to realization of the category which serves as the doubled anthropocentre of the discourse through the subcategories of sender and addressee. The research provides the investigation of the gradual balancing and further transference of discursive focalization centre from the sender to the addressee (in correspondence with the “death of the author” postulate proclaimed by postmodernists). The paper also focuses on the analysis of the British postmodern fiction discourse of the XXI century. The factual material shows that the subcategory of the sender is realized via various forms of the author’s presence in the text (“author-function”, character prototypical to the author etc.). The article gives the proofs that the subcategory of the addressee is reflected in this type of discourse through the elements of “megatext” (preface, acknowledgement, references, epigraph, author’s commentary, epilogue etc.). The textual material also justifies that the basic peculiarity of the postmodern fiction discourse is transference of the focal center that causes the discursive divergence of vectors of authorial intention, material presentation and reader’s perception. In such way the postmodern fiction discourse reveals its dynamic and open character and proves to be a synergetic system.