PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PARAMETERS OF RECURRENCE IN SITUATIONS OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND AFFECT (BASED ON I. CHORNYI’S NOVEL “BLOODY BREW”)

Abstract

The article presents a comprehensive psycholinguistic and cognitive-pragmatic analysis of lingual recurrence in Ihor Chornyi’s individual authorial discourse based on his novel “Bloody Brew”. The relevance of the study is determined by the insufficient explication of the psycholinguistic dimension of recurrence in contemporary literary narrative, particularly within historical detective fiction, where the combination of rational inquiry with a mystical-religious atmosphere creates a unique environment for verbalizing extreme emotional states. The object of the study is the characters’ speech and the emotionally marked narrator’s discourse; the subject is the structural and pragmatic parameters of recurrent models (lexical repetitions, anaphors, syntactic parallelism). Three primary models are identified: recurrence of split identity in situations of existential choice (cognitive dissonance); recurrence of prayer as a mechanism of autosuggestion and psychological stabilization; iterative recurrence in situations of detective cognitive aporia. It is demonstrated that linguistic redundancy in zones of psychoemotional tension loses its decorative function, becoming a direct representative of deep shifts in the speaker’s cognitive system. The degree of affective destabilization is shown to be inversely proportional to the step distance between recurrents: the higher the level of affect, the more tightly the recurrent chain loops, fixing a zero recurrence step. Further research is envisioned in mathematical-linguistic modelling of recurrent step distance and comparative analysis of psycholinguistic emotion markers across different authorial styles