The Problem of Anomalous Conceptualization in a Literary Text (Linguistic Aspect)

The purpose of this paper is to study anomalous conceptualization in a literary text, which is considered as “a reflection of the surrounding world in the human mind, including its objects, actions, states, connections and relationships between them” Lange-Soboleva 2021, p. 29. In case these connections are violated thus becoming their possible conflict with real facts, conceptualization acquires a counterfactual or anomalous character. A “counterfactual” vision of the world is characteristic of human thinking, since a change in the time continuum is possible in his consciousness might change and this will lead to the perception of the surrounding reality as anomalous. In a literary text, the actualization of the world picture is one of the possible prototypes of reality, reflecting the author’s vision of the surrounding reality, its subjective modality. Using an excerpt from the novel by the French writer Brigitte Giraud “Vivre Vite” as an example, the article examines special cases of the conditional mood as one of the significant markers of a counterfactual situation. In the excerpt under study, the authors of the article identified and analyzed anomalies in the sphere of modality and spatio-temporal structure, along with the changes in cause-and-effect relationships. As a result of the analysis, it was concluded that in the excerpt under consideration, as well as in the fiction as a whole, there dominated a special model of a conditional sentence with an inverted cause-and-effect relationship, which recreate an alternative reality in which the novel’s characters exist. The authors’ conclusions from studying the violation of conceptualization of time categories can be considered theoretically significant. Based on our main goal, which is to study the problem of anomalous conceptualization in a fiction text, we will formulate additional tasks, the first of which is to identify all statements in the conditional mood in the analyzed passage that deviate from the norm. The second task is to formulate the principle that underlies all statements in the conditional mood of the present and past. The third task is to explain the meaning and establish the effect of anomalous actualization of forms of the conditional mood