Literary discourse in the light of ethnocultural interpretation of the text

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of ethno-cultural interpretation of the valuesemantic content of literary discourse. Literary discourse is considered as a socio-cultural interaction
between the author generating the text, and the reader perceiving and interpreting it. The process of
interpreting a literary text as a co-creation product of creative and receptive minds includes a
discursive and conceptual analysis aimed at extracting implicit ethno-cultural meanings contained in
the deep structure of the text. Accordingly, revealing the conceptual and subtext information reflecting
the author's ethno-cultural picture of the world is determined as the purpose of interpreting literary
text. The article presents the authors’ version of understanding and ethno-cultural interpretation of the
text by identifying the semantic and stylistic specifics of the lexical representation of artistic macroconcepts in their autochthonous and translated versions. The considered aspects are supported by
examples from the literary text.