Lingual Means of Creating Cinematic Effect in the English Literary Text

Abstract

The article is devoted to the cinematic effect within a descriptive language register of the English literary text. The article reveals the essence of cinematic effect as a literary technique based on cinematographic montage composition style that is the use of certain compositional-syntactic means to create brisk, dynamic description and represent a viewer’s shifting perspective. Cinematic effect enhances the plausibility of the literary text and should be considered more than just an imitation of cinematographic montage techniques but rather a lingual reflection of the natural process of perception and interpretation. The article reveals the concept and characteristic features of the descriptive language register of a literary text as a model for representing events, where the speaker describes what is actually observed at the moment of speech through sensory experiences. The article provides a thorough analysis of linguistic means of creating a cinematic effect within the framework of the descriptive language register of a literary text. The special attention is paid to lingual means that manifest the perception by various modalities, and their role in creating a cinematic effect within the descriptive language register of a literary text. The author concludes that the use of the reproductive register is predefined by the genre peculiarities of the material under study, since the way of representing events within the framework of the descriptive language register is most conducive to conveying viewer’s shifting perspective, the effect of the reader's direct presence at the events described, i.e. cinematic effect