CONCEPTS “GARDEN” AND “DESERT” IN “DUNE” SERIAL NOVELS BY FRANK HERBERT

The study is based on effective methods of cognitive linguistics to study concept in the system of language. Speech realization of the concept in a literary text is examined as determined in its functions by an author’s idea, genre and style of the text. The research is a timely development of a modal framework notion for a work of literature, which enabled to describe verbalization of the concept as a system of semantic, formal and functional characteristics. The study confirmed that science-fiction novels from the series “Dune” by Frank Herbert are characterized by philosophical depth and complexity of language, while the concepts “garden” and “desert” play the key role in creating ideological and esthetic contents of the novels.

The paper contains analyses of the concepts on various levels of the literary text. It is noted that a concept can be examined at the level of language verbalization, at the levels of the text, the hypertext and literary discourse, while concepts are represented on phonetic, lexical and syntactic levels of the language. Concepts in a literary text have a cohesive hypertext function and provide the dialogue of the writer and the reader in literary discourse. The basis of concept realization in F. Herbert’s science-fiction was linguistic and stylistic analysis, referring to the broader context. Research discloses hypertext function of the concept in the literary text to provide communication of the reader and the writer in the literary text.

It is discovered that the cultural component of the text of novels is closely connected with verbalization of concepts. Analyses disclosed opposition of the concepts providing the principle of reader’s choice. The study showed that the writer models reader’s perception of heroes and events of novels by creating axiological modality. The paper brings forth conclusions about F. Herbert’s values experiments, the role of the reader in creating the system of values and the connection of axiology with epistemic and deontic modalities semantics.