Linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in D. Keyes’s novel «Flowers for Algernon»
Reproducing the speech portrait of a character in the text of a literary work is a difficult artistic task, especially for characters who have certain intellectual impairments and speech disorders, i.e. suffer from aphasia. The writer gives an authentic and detailed description of certain manifestat...
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2024-06-01
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| description | Reproducing the speech portrait of a character in the text of a literary work is a difficult artistic task, especially for characters who have certain intellectual impairments and speech disorders, i.e. suffer from aphasia. The writer gives an authentic and detailed description of certain manifestations of aphatic syndromes in the character taking into account both language disorders and psychopathological manifestations that significantly affect the structure and content of the text.
The article defines and characterizes the peculiarities of the use of language means in creating the image of a character with intellectual disabilities in the novel.
The novel under study shows the evolution of the character’s personality: as a result of a scientific experiment (surgical operation), a patient with low level of intellectual development turns practically into a genius. But interfering with the character’s brain gives only a temporary improvement –– rapid progress is replaced by degradation.
The changes in Charlie Gordon’s intellectual development are shown through his speech portrait –– an important means of revealing the image of the character and his inner world. The depiction of the image of a character in a literary work involves giving him speech abilities in accordance with all factors that affect the course of speech, its qualitative and quantitative characteristics (personal, mental, psychological, age, social, national, regional).
The analysis of the novel by D. Keys shows that the writer portrays the character in dynamics, which is also reflected in his speech portrait. Charlie Gordon’s path from a person with intellectual disability to an intellectual genius and vice versa is shown in his reports-records, in which all that happened to him is successively reproduced, and the people he had to communicate with, his worldview and his perception of the world are described.
In order to create the image of a character with intellectual disabilities, D. Keyes chose only a few linguistic means (graphon, capitalization, lexical repetitions) to reproduce the speech of such a person, with a wider range of such means for the image of Charlie the intellectual. The deliberate selection of linguistic means helped to create contrasting images of Charlie as a person with intellectual disabilities and Charlie as a person with a high IQ.
Contrasting speech portraits of the character involves a special expressiveness, addressability and helps D. Keys to create a three-dimensional, multifaceted image. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-75a908d29d3e44398285f17d8dd2930a2025-01-10T11:17:26ZengV. N. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityВісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Філологія. Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì V.N. Karazìna. Serìâ Fìlologìâ.2227-18642024-06-0194778310.26565/2227-1864-2024-94-1223764Linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in D. Keyes’s novel «Flowers for Algernon»Olga Kanevska0Iryna Klymenko1Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University Reproducing the speech portrait of a character in the text of a literary work is a difficult artistic task, especially for characters who have certain intellectual impairments and speech disorders, i.e. suffer from aphasia. The writer gives an authentic and detailed description of certain manifestations of aphatic syndromes in the character taking into account both language disorders and psychopathological manifestations that significantly affect the structure and content of the text. The article defines and characterizes the peculiarities of the use of language means in creating the image of a character with intellectual disabilities in the novel. The novel under study shows the evolution of the character’s personality: as a result of a scientific experiment (surgical operation), a patient with low level of intellectual development turns practically into a genius. But interfering with the character’s brain gives only a temporary improvement –– rapid progress is replaced by degradation. The changes in Charlie Gordon’s intellectual development are shown through his speech portrait –– an important means of revealing the image of the character and his inner world. The depiction of the image of a character in a literary work involves giving him speech abilities in accordance with all factors that affect the course of speech, its qualitative and quantitative characteristics (personal, mental, psychological, age, social, national, regional). The analysis of the novel by D. Keys shows that the writer portrays the character in dynamics, which is also reflected in his speech portrait. Charlie Gordon’s path from a person with intellectual disability to an intellectual genius and vice versa is shown in his reports-records, in which all that happened to him is successively reproduced, and the people he had to communicate with, his worldview and his perception of the world are described. In order to create the image of a character with intellectual disabilities, D. Keyes chose only a few linguistic means (graphon, capitalization, lexical repetitions) to reproduce the speech of such a person, with a wider range of such means for the image of Charlie the intellectual. The deliberate selection of linguistic means helped to create contrasting images of Charlie as a person with intellectual disabilities and Charlie as a person with a high IQ. Contrasting speech portraits of the character involves a special expressiveness, addressability and helps D. Keys to create a three-dimensional, multifaceted image.https://periodicals.karazin.ua/philology/article/view/23764speech portraitlanguage meansimage of a characterimage of a person with an intellectual disabilityd. keyesthe novel “flowers for algeron” |
| spellingShingle | Olga Kanevska Iryna Klymenko Linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in D. Keyes’s novel «Flowers for Algernon» Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Філологія. Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì V.N. Karazìna. Serìâ Fìlologìâ. speech portrait language means image of a character image of a person with an intellectual disability d. keyes the novel “flowers for algeron” |
| title | Linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in D. Keyes’s novel «Flowers for Algernon» |
| title_full | Linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in D. Keyes’s novel «Flowers for Algernon» |
| title_fullStr | Linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in D. Keyes’s novel «Flowers for Algernon» |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in D. Keyes’s novel «Flowers for Algernon» |
| title_short | Linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in D. Keyes’s novel «Flowers for Algernon» |
| title_sort | linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in d keyes s novel flowers for algernon |
| topic | speech portrait language means image of a character image of a person with an intellectual disability d. keyes the novel “flowers for algeron” |
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