TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUNCTUATION SYSTEM AND THE VERBAL COMPONENT IN THE CREOLIZATION OF THE TEXT (based on the rumanga material of the story by A. I. Kuprin “The Wonderful Doctor”)

This article describes a complex of systemic linguosemiotic transformations that arise during the media adaptation of a classical literary text into the Rumanga format, i.e. Russian manga. The research methodology includes a comparative analysis of the original text of A. I. Kuprin’s story and its graphic adaptation, which allows us to identify such key changes as the omission of final periods and ellipses, as well as dividing and emphasizing punctuation marks, isolated cases of sign substitution, lexical substitutions, and the elimination of explanatory constructions, homogeneous members, fragments of direct speech, and descriptions. It has been established that the identified transformations implement the principles of the visual syntax of comics, reflect a tendency to economize attention, and meet the requirements of media adaptation, replacing traditional punctuation with graphic segmentation. Another aspect of the study is the description of the semiotics of emotions: the dominance of the visualization of joy/fun and painful states through canonical graphic markers (smiles, “sparkles” in the eyes, blushes, physiological details) is revealed. It has been proven that Rumanga as a creolized text forms an alternative narrative system, where the reduction of verbal means is compensated by visual means of expressing meaning and emotions.