LINGUOPOETICS AND LITERARY TEXT: THE AESTHETIC FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE DEVICES

Abstract

The article examines linguopoetics as a multidisciplinary field that explores how linguistic form generates aesthetic effects in literary texts. Drawing on functional stylistics, cognitive poetics and semiotics, the study analyses correlations between phonetic, lexical, syntactic and tropological devices and a reader’s aesthetic response. A corpus of English-language and Russian-language poems and short prose passages (n = 120) was subjected to close reading augmented by quantitative stylistic profiling. The findings show that foregrounding through parallelism, alliteration and metaphor clusters constitutes the principal mechanism by which language devices transform propositional content into an aesthetic experience. Moreover, the salience of micro-level devices is amplified by macro-level narrative perspective and genre expectations. The article contributes to current debates on the interface between linguistic form and literary value, proposing an integrative model that aligns Jakobson’s poetics of the sign with contemporary embodied-cognition theories.