Стилистический потенциал кулинарных лексических единиц в художественном нарративе
STYLISTIC POTENTIAL OF CULINARY LEXICAL UNITS IN BELLES-LETTRES NARRATIVE

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the expressive potential of culinary vocabulary in Babička (The Grandmother), a novel by the nineteenth-century Czech writer Bozena Nemcova. Czech cuisine is treated as a symbolic system whose encoded meanings are realized through narrative discourse. Culinaronyms (culinary names) are analyzed as a means of objectifying the concept of national identity and as an object of textual transformation in the literary work – a materia­li­zed discourse of abstraction. The relevance of the study is motivated by the need to clarify certain features of style as a complex phenomenon connected simultaneously with linguistic and extralinguistic factors. Its theoretical significance lies in identifying and describing the mechanism by which linguistic units are transformed into units of a fundamentally different nature within the structure of artistic narrative, in the context of the “text-style-discourse” relationship. Analysis of the collected examples reveals how the expressive resources of this group of onyms serve to articulate the author’s intention, how they connect with various levels of the integrated textual structure as well as with phenomena beyond it, and how culinaronyms function both as independent semantic units and as stylistic markers.

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