THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN CREATING ARCTIC REALITY AND PLOT IN LALINE PAULL’S 'THE ICE'
THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN CREATING ARCTIC REALITY AND PLOT IN LALINE PAULL’S 'THE ICE'

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the language of Laline Paull’s novel 'The Ice' to show how it provides a useful and dexterous tool in rendering ideas and creating atmosphere and plot in the piece of literature under analysis. To the aim of also demonstrating how it can do these things rapidly and synthetically, we pay special attention to the introductory part of the writing, in which the premises for the whole approach are laid. The focus on this portion constitutes the first section of the paper. Then, we look at the figurative use of language to refer to economic and political agendas and vested interests in the area, in the second section. Language serves the purpose of effectively creating a setting and reality of a context, such as the Arctic world, alongside describing the specific activities, fauna, geographical uniqueness of this environment and its phenomena, and folklore of the inhabitants, thus holding a prominent didactic role for the reader. This becomes evident in the third part of the research, dedicated to the elements of the scape and the animal world there. Finally, we bring into discussion the use of bits and pieces taken from explorers’ accounts to connect the chapters, looking at their content and analyzing their functions. The approach is identity and cultural studies combined with linguistics

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