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THE IMAGE OF A WRITER IN NOBEL LECTURES DELIVERED BY LAUREATES IN LITERATURE

DOI: 10.18523/lcmp2522-92812018156153, PP. 68-79

Subject Areas: Linguistics

Keywords: public speaking, the Nobel lecture, the literature laureate, the content component, the image of a writer, a social role

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Background. A growing interest in discursive nature of Nobel lectures resulted in a number of studies which emphasize their rhetorical force to influence public opinion and to popularize ideas in different spheres of human life. Analyzing Literature Laureates’ lectures, most researchers focus on linguistic means and the personality of the Nobelist himself/herself. However, characteristics of a writer proper have not been dealt with indepth. This article maintains our previous study, which indicates a close relationship between the content component of the Nobel lecture and the laureate’ outlook; the lecture itself can be regarded as a brief but extremely powerful expression of his/her human and professional qualities. Purpose. The aim of this paper is to examine how literature laureates interpret the notion of a writer in their Nobel lectures and to identify main common themes in creating this collective image. Methods. A method of linguistic description and observation, a descriptive method, and a contextual-interpretation method were employed to analyse the sample of 17 Nobel lectures. Results. The outcomes of our study indicate that Nobel lectures are extremely powerful expression of prizewinners’ human and professional qualities. We have devised a set of five themes, namely the writer’s social duty, his/her destiny, literary background, tools, and literary outcome to describe the collective image of a writer. Within the framework of our research, literary background falls into two subthemes (literary heritage and a personal writing process); discussing the writer’s toolkit, we focus on language and words. Discussion. Our findings show that laureates develop the concept “writer” to varying degrees but all of them stress a direct interconnection between an active social position and the writer’s destiny. Further research can involve the in-depth study of a definite Nobel lecture in terms of the compositional structure and employed linguistic means.

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Pavlenko, L. (2018). THE IMAGE OF A WRITER IN NOBEL LECTURES DELIVERED BY LAUREATES IN LITERATURE. Language: Classic – Modern – Postmodern, e2746. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18523/lcmp2522-92812018156153.

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