PARALLELISM AS A FOREGROUNDING MECHANISM AND A MODEL OF TEXT ORGANIZATION

Abstract

The article concentrates on the theoretical foundations of the study of parallelism as a mechanism of stylistic foregrounding and a model of text organization. The functioning of parallelism is determined by the initial necessity to represent linguistic forms and meanings in the space of the text. The study of parallelism involves identifying the mechanism of equivalence, which serves as the basis for its regularity (orderliness) in correlation with linguistic deviations. The equivalence of parallelism allows us to identify a series of structural, semantic and functional relationships between its members and determine the key factors that unite them into a single whole. In the structure of parallelism, the process of layering its parts, their meanings and functional features equally occurs, ultimately forming a single cognitive basis for its interpretation. The key properties of parallelism are regularity of its constituent elements, salience, redundancy, i.e. accumulated recurrence of units, and perceptivity (the potential that provides sensory perception). All these properties of parallelism are determined by implementing the iconicity principle (principles of quantity, proximity and sequential order). The manifestation of various forms of parallelism is determined by the scale of both the literary text and other examples of verbal art and, in general, various spheres of linguistic communication. The variety of forms of parallelism, as well as its structural and functional characteristics, indicate the multifaceted nature of its linguistic manifestation and conceptual potential, determined by a number of cognitive categories and principles.