Modeling as an Effective Method of Linguostylistic Analysis of Fictional Prose (Based on Contemporary Short Stories in the Kazakh Language)

Abstract

Linguostylistic analysis of the language of a literary work is one of the most complex scholarly problems. In world linguistics, two methods of linguostylistic analysis have been identified for examining linguistic units that are organized in accordance with the ideological and thematic content of a literary text: the immanent method and the projection method. In addition, in the twenty-first century, researchers have begun to consider the modeling method as one of the innovative approaches to improving the methodology of linguostylistics.

The aim of the study is to propose a modeling method for the linguostylistic analysis of sound harmony employed to create expressive effect in collections of short stories by young Kazakh writers aged 22-35, published in recent decades. The scientific and practical significance of the study lies primarily in the fact that this corpus of Kazakh short stories has not previously been examined from a linguistic perspective.

The study employs a modeling approach through the description and interpretation of the principal expressive devices formed by sound harmony – one of the national norms of artistic language – grounded in national cognition and entrenched in the linguistic consciousness of language users, as manifested in contemporary collections of the short story genre. The research findings contribute to identifying characteristics inherent in processes that utilize the full linguistic resources of the Kazakh language to strengthen its vitality and competitiveness in the era of globalization; to revealing the continuity of national linguistic potential in the language use of contemporary young writers; to determining trends characteristic of the dynamics of modern Kazakh; and to advancing the theoretical and practical investigation of the previously underexplored field of Kazakh linguostylistics, as well as to the refinement of its methodological frameworks.

Keywords: linguostylistic analysis, contemporary Kazakh short stories, types of methods, modeling, national norms of artistic language, sound harmony.