VANTAGE POINT AS A COMPONENT OF PERSPECTIVISATION IN DRAMATIC TEXTS

VANTAGE POINT AS A COMPONENT OF PERSPECTIVISATION IN DRAMATIC TEXTS

Author:  N.Yu. Petrova

Affiliation:  Moscow City Pedagogical University

Abstract: 
The article focuses on the problem of vantage point as one of the main components of the cognitive process of perspectivisation. Shakespearean drama illustrates how shifting of deictic coordinates (of space, time, reference) influence the taken vantage point.

Keywords:  perspectivisation, cognitive approach, vantage point, deixis, shifting, language of drama