Linguistic creativity and multimodal tropes in cinematic discourse

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The present article explores the creative potential of language that is realized in cinematic discourse and is based on the case study of eight popular Soviet comedy films of the 1960s with the overall running time of 670 minutes. The choice of this period is determined by the sociohistorical relevance of the sixties in the development of Russian culture and cinematic art. The goals of this paper are to identify and categorize the verbal means that trigger the creation of cinematic tropes, and to define the transformations that these verbal means acquire as a result of their involvement into constructing cinematic figurativeness. To achieve these goals, a complex methodology has been elaborated. It includes three stages of analysis and rests on conceptions that have been recently developed in linguistics, film studies, and research on multimodality. According to research findings, cinematic figurativeness originates in two kinds of verbal means. Non-figurative verbal means (i.e. words used in their literal meanings; free word-combinations, etc.) and figurative verbal means (i.e. literary metaphors; idioms, etc.) are employed for the creation of three kinds of cinematic tropes: cinematic metonymies, cinematic metaphors, and cinematic irony. In the process of the formation of cinematic tropes, verbal units of both categories are transformed in a variety of ways: structurally, grammatically, semantically, and pragmatically. The investigation has revealed a dual or reverse character that linguistic creativity has in cinematic discourse: verbal units provide the creation of cinematic tropes and at the same time they themselves acquire certain innovative properties. The results could contribute to further studies of creativity in cinematic discourse as well as in other types of multimodal texts, including media, advertising, visual poetry, and electronic literature.

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Irina Zykova

Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: irina_zykova@iling-ran.ru
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Doctor Habil. of Philology, Leading Researcher of the Department of Theoretical Linguistics at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has authored over 190 publications, including four books devoted to the problems of gender linguistics, phraseology and linguoculturology. She is also author of the textbook A Practical Course in English Lexicology (3rd ed., 2008), co-author of the fundamental dictionary The Big Phraseological Dictionary of the Russian Language (5th ed., 2022), editor of the collective book Linguistic Creativity in Discourses of Different Types: Limits and Possibilities (2021). Her research interests lie in the field of language theory, cognitive linguistics, linguoculturology, multimodal linguistics, phraseology, and lexicography

Moscow, Russia

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