COGNITIVE RELEVANCE OF LITERARY CRITICISM NOTIONS ‘FICTIONAL TEXT’ AND ‘NON-FICTIONAL TEXT’

COGNITIVE RELEVANCE OF LITERARY CRITICISM NOTIONS ‘FICTIONAL TEXT’ AND ‘NON-FICTIONAL TEXT’

Author:  Bogatikova J.A.

Affiliation:  National University of Science and technology “MISIS”

Abstract: 
The article deals with cognitive relevance of literary criticism notions of ‘fictional text’ and ‘non-fictional text’ as objects of critical studies. The survey results point out that the traditional opposition of ‘true/fictitious’ is less relevant for text perception a contextual interpretation and pragmatic purposes of reading.

Keywords:  literary criticism, fictional text and non-fictional text, reading pragmatics, context, verification