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Linguistic Studies
Volume 40(1), 2020, pp. 19-36
The Category of Person in Poetry of Lesia Ukrainka
Darchuk Natalia
Article first published online: December 01, 2020
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Darchuk Natalia, Doctor of Philology, professor, professor of Department of Ukrainian Lan¬guage and Applied Linguistic in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Correspondence: nataliadarchuk@gmail.com
Citation: Darchuk, N. The Category of Person in Poetry of Lesia Ukrainka [Text] // Linhvistychni Studiyi / Linguistic Studies : collection of scientific papers / Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University; Ed. by Anatoliy Zahnitko. Vinnytsia : Vasyl' Stus DonNU, 2020. Vol. 40(1). Pp. 19-36. ISBN 966-7277-88-7
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31558/1815-3070.2020.40.1.2
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Volume first published online: December 01, 2020
Article received: July 01, 2020, accepted: August 01, 2020 and first published online: December 01, 2020
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Annotation.У статті праналізовано категорію особи у прижиттєвій творчості Лесі Українки на основі корпусу текстів української мови. Розглянуто засоби вираження семантики займенни¬ків як чинники ідіостилю поетеси. Наведено фрагмент створеного ідеографічного словника, наповненого дієслівною лексикою з частотними характеристиками поетичного стилю Лесі Українки. Keywords: addressee, originator, egocentrism, pronoun, ideographic dictionary, category of a person, text corpus, predicate, frequency.
Abstract.
THE
CATEGORY OF PERSON IN POETRY OF LESIA UKRAINKA Natalia
Darchuk Department
of Ukrainian Language and Applied Linguistic, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv,
Ukraine. Abstract Background: The category of a person plays an
exceptionally important role in the language of poetry; it is the category of a
person by the nature of the use of its grammatical person that: 1) distinguishes between such art forms as poetry and epics; 2) forms
different types of lyrics with different uses of grammatical persons; 3)
highlightsthe poet’s style by originality in the use of personality forms; 4)
plays a significant role in the formation of meaning and the overall
composition of lyrical poems. Purpose: research of the category of a person in the
lifetime works of Lesia
Ukrainka on the basis of
her text corpus Ukrainian posted at mova.info. Results: Based on the
material of the collections of the lifetime edition (the total text length is 55,638 word usages), the Frequency Dictionary comprising 5,515
words was compiled, and quantitative data on the use of personal pronouns were
obtained, the most frequent of which appeared to be I, thou, we, you, which, together with the context, became the source material. All 142
verses and poems have been analyzed by type of text (egotic, appealing, mixed
and those using pronouns he, she, it, they). Studies have
shown that the majority of texts (78.1% of 142) are the texts of mixed type,
which is the evidence of increased intratextual communicativeness. The plot
organization of lyrical texts with the allocation of plot schemes with "I" and "thou" centerswas also analyzed. The content of the poetic category of a person is determinedby a factor such
as a predicate to pronouns. From the contexts of Lesia Ukrainka's corpus, the predicates to the
pronoun I (484 contexts, of which 409 are expressed by verbs) and to
the pronoun thou (208 contexts and 153 verbs) were selected separately.The most characteristic for both pronouns in
the predicative position are the verbs of the mental sphere (15.7% / 19.1%). Such predicates for the words I – thouindicate a focus on learning of the world. In the
second place for both pronouns is occupied by thewilldomain (14.7% / 7.6%), the verbs of which
are more frequent in combination with the pronoun I. The third place is heldby verbs of the existential spheredomain for the pronoun I (8.6%): to be (23), which usually plays the role of a connective
verb, and interpersonal relations
(7%) for the pronoun thou. It is
proved that the abstract-conceptual semantics of personalization, i.e. direct
participants of the speech act of the subject and the object, is realized
almost equally in the syntagmatic combinability with the semantics of
predicates. The semantics of predicates are evidence of the priorities of Lesia Ukrainka's poetic personality. The study of the
category of a person in the poetry of Lesia Ukrainka allows us to draw conclusions about the peculiarities of usinga
grammatical person in lyrical poetry in comparison with its common use. It can
be argued that there are complex connections that exist between the content of
the lyrical I and the ways of its expression. On the one hand, I
is always present in the text, but on the other hand, the formal ways of
expressing I are limitless. They play a significant role in the individual
poetics and idiosyncrasy of the writer. The nature of connections between I and
predicates has its own individual features in the poetic system of Lesia
Ukrainka (the connection between the direction of the poet's worldview and the
formal structure of the category of a person; there is an "asymmetry",
which is a disproportion between the content and expression of the category of
a person). Discussion: Consideration of the
functioning aspects of the category of a person in Lesia Ukrainka’s lyrics testifies
to the complex relationship between the content of the lyrical I,
thou, and the ways of their expression. The excessive number of
first-person forms is connected with the author's position regarding the world,
with her worldview. The prospects for further research are, firstly, to
continue the analysis of pronouns in connection with the issue of co-reference,
and secondly, to analyze the other grammatical categories based on the
material of Lesia Ukrainka's text corpus in order to clarify the features of her
idiostyle. Keywords: addressee, originator, egocentrism, pronoun,
ideographic dictionary, category of a person, text corpus, predicate, frequency. Vitae Natalia Darchuk, Doctor of Philology, professor, professor of Department of Ukrainian Language and Applied
Linguistic in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Her areas of research interests include applied
linguistics and computational linguistics.
Correspondence:
nataliadarchuk@gmail.com
Article.
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