LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF LOUISE ERDRICH’S NOVEL “LOVE MEDICINE”
Abstract
This article examines the individual style of the American writer Louise Erdrich on the example of her novel “Love medicine”. Defining the individual style of the author is one of the most important tasks in the field of applied linguistics, which plays a leading role in the development of modern means of word processing. The individual style of the author reflects the unique features of the artist's writing that distinguish his works from the literary heritage of other authors. It reveals the personality of the creator, his life experience, values, views and prejudices, as well as the culture of his region and the characteristics of the society of his time. Louise Erdrich is one of the most famous American writers of Indian descent, who, researching the history of ancestors, reflects it in her works, embodies in the images of various characters. During the research the influence of the writer's cultural and personal experience on her works was explored and the choice of syntactic constructions, grammatical and lexical means was analyzed. Examples of the use of literary devices were also selected for the research and their meaning in the context of the work was determined. A detailed analysis of using metaphors, similes, hyperboles, symbols, repetitions and onomatopoeia was conducted within which the influence of literary devices and figurative language on the text and awakening of readers’ emotions and feelings were investigated. We discovered that the proportion of metaphors in our text amounts to approximately 40% whereas epithets and similes appear somewhere in the region of 16% and 15% respectively. Moreover, the chart illustrates that personification and anaphora are commonly used by the author. Figurative language plays a significant role in the work, because it allows the readers to immerse themselves in the world of words and experience events with its characters, getting to know each of them better. With their help, the author emphasizes the individual and unique features of the characters and extremely subtly depicts their feelings, experiences and warm relationships between the characters of the work of Louise Edrich, which permeate the readers to the depths of the soul. The work has theoretical value in terms of studying the unique features characteristic for a particular author, and practical value in the application of findings in automatic text analysis systems and linguistic corpora.
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