Kuznecova T. Ya.
Proper name in postmodernism based on the work of Patrick Modiano Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue. Pp. 68–74.
UDC 81’42
DOI: 10.37724/RSU.2025.75.4.007
EDN: QHJBLN
Abstract. The postulate of the author’s death in postmodern aesthetics has put forward the assertion of the novel’s structural integrity. Postmodernism put the character in the first place, which led to subjectivism, astructurality, and decentralization of the text. The purpose of this article is to select and analyze samples of a vertical context with a proper name, which, while implementing the principle of multiple interpretations, ensure at the same time adequacy to the postmodern concept: meaningfulness appears in the process of text unfolding. The research is based on the theory of psychosystematics, which considers language material in the trinity of “language-actualization-speech”. The theoretical contribution (novelty) of the research consists in identifying the place and meaning of a proper name in the conceptual, semantic, syntactic, communicative, textual structure of the vertical context as a basic unit of discourse in postmodernism.
Keywords: postmodernism, decentralization, proper name, psychosystematics, vertical context, speech and linguistic activity.
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