Forms of Metatextuality Actualized in a Literary Text and Their Role in Representation of the Author’s Worldview (Based on the Novel Word Child by Iris Murdoch).

Abstract

The article presents a lingvocognitive research and deals with the study of metatext as a means of representing the author’s worldview. The author of the study describes and systematizes the ways by which metatextuality reveals itself in a literary text. The material is taken from the novel Word Child by Iris Murdoch in which meta-language reflection is expressed evidently. Cognitive approach, used in the study of metatext, brings the research to the level of metacognition and provides a wider interpretation of both the forms of metatextual commentary in the text and their function in the reconstruction of the author’s individual world vision.