Functioning of mono- and cross-lingual models in the literary discourse

The article presents the author’s theory of monolingual and cross-lingual models’ functioning in literary discourse for the first time. The object of the study is a dynamic segment of the architectonics in romance fiction, and the subject is the monolingual and cross-lingual models of cognitive scripts. The purpose of the study is to identify the trends in mono- and cross-lingual models’ functioning in literary discourse in terms of their meaning construction in English and Russian. The achievement of the goal is based on a complex of methods, including cognitive-discursive analysis, which identifies cognitive scripts in the novel architectonics, interpretative analysis, which describes cognitive scripts in the informative models’ form, and cognitive-hermeneutic modeling, which determines the trends in monolingual models while a comparative analysis reveals the specifics of cross-lingual models in literary discourse. The study has the following results: for the first time, monolingual models identify in the form of discursive informative constructs in one language and cross-lingual models describes in the format of bilingual semantic constructs functioning in the aspect of linguocultural transcoding. Two types of models were identified in the architectonics of romance fiction. For the first time, the presence of kinematic and activity-based discursive cognitive scripts was established, and the trends in their construction in romance fiction were identified. The novelty of the research lies in the following: the expansion of the theoretical and methodological framework of discourse studies with the author’s theory of monolingual and cross-lingual models’ functioning in the literary discourse, and the addition of new terms to the discourse thesaurus, such as: “monolingual model”, “cross-lingual model”, “kinematic cognitive script” and “activity-based cognitive script”. The results and conclusions obtained can be applied in the further development of the theory of discourse constructs’ informative code.