Egocentrism and introspection as a basis for composition and architectonics of a literary text

Abstract

The article is focused on the fundamental characteristics of a poetical text, i.e. “egocentrism” and “introspection” determined by the highlighting of the individual human “Self” in its content and form. The “Self” perceives and reflects the world using a poetic utterance. It studies the so-called “egocentric” linguistic units and speech mechanisms of their interaction used not only for a pragmatic focusing of the speaker’s “viewpoint” within the structure of a text but also for expressing their mental psychic and emotional states. The arguments and summarizing conclusions of the article are based on the proposition of semantic-pragmatic and functional “stratification” of the speech subject of a literary narrative into (1) a “depicting” speech subject and (2) a “depicted” subject.