Establishing the Symbolic Association of the Concept of 'Youth' in the British and American Literary Discourse in the 19th-21st Centuries

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Published: Jun 10, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2020-1-0167
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concept symbol association culture literary discourse axiological potential

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Olga Beshlei
Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

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The article deals with axiologically marked symbolic associations related to the sociocultural phenomenon of youth. The research is conducted on the basis of social novels by British and American authors of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The symbolic meaning of the concept is formed in a textual context and motivated by cultural images, ideas and values. It does not cause an internal semantic change but complements the range of meaning in the process of discourse implementation. The study of the symbolic embodiment of the concept of YOUTH in English literary discourse is not limited to the analysis of individual words but requires conducting an interpretative-textual analysis of the coherent discourse situation, indicating the formation of an associative chain during concept actualization. Chain elements are linked internally into a single unit, forming an associative group. The symbol, carrying the axiological potential of its culture, operates in inseparable unity with the axiological component of the concept under study. The data clarify the relationship between positive and negative axiological representations of the concept.

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Beshlei, O. “Establishing the Symbolic Association of the Concept of ’Youth’ in the British and American Literary Discourse in the 19th-21st Centuries”. Linguaculture, vol. 11, no. 1, June 2020, pp. 139-55, doi:10.47743/lincu-2020-1-0167.
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Olga Beshlei, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

OLGA BESHLEI is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Chernivtsi  National University, Ukraine. She is currently teaching Business English,  Lexicology of English and ELT Course. In 2018 she defended a PhD thesis in  Philology (topic “Concept YOUTH in the English literary discourse: diachronic  approach”). Her research areas are: Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics  and Psycholinguistics. She also writes about secondary education. She has 23  published articles, a further 3 in various stages of completion dealing mostly  with the image of youth in social media. 

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