Thought and its Interaction with The Subject in a Literary Work (Based on F. M. Dostoevsky's Novel Crime and Punishment)

Abstract

This article examines the realisation of semantic functions within the framework of the relationship between a human being and their cognitive activity in the space of a literary text. The empirical material is drawn from examples extracted from F. M. Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment.

The aim of the study is to investigate the expression in literary language of the genesis and ontogenesis of thought, to identify the forms of interaction between a human being and the product of their intellectual activity — as expressed by the noun thought (mysl') — represented in Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment, and to analyse the predominant types of such interrelationships in the text.

The article further examines the realisation of subject–object functions within the framework of the interaction between a human being and their thinking, as well as the lexical collocability of the substantive thought (mysl') with other parts of speech.

The study highlights the possible modification of types of connection, as well as the redistribution and transformation of the semantic functions of real and virtual participants in the course of their interaction