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What Is Not in the Text: Towards the Problem of Implicitness in Drama

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This article examines implicitness, its realization and decoding by lexical-semantic means in fiction. The authors substantiate their claim that implicitness is an inherent language feature co-existing with explicitness. Establishing the perspective of a linguist-literary scholar, the authors provide a multi-level meaning presentation from literal to figurative and symbolic, based on discourse analysis. It is shown that much of the meaning can be concealed in the text and extend the limits of the latter. The analysis reveals that implicitness develops by lexical-semantic and lexical-syntactic means, through a diverse array of generative and interpretative devices.

Source: Annals of the University of Craiova Series Philology Linguistics

DOI: 10.52846/aucssflingv.v46i1-2.128

Authors: Anna ERLIKHMAN, Olga KULCHYTSKA

Institutions: International Humanitarian University, Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University

Language: English

Topic: Linguistic research and analysis

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4407675357

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