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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="issn">2313-8912</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Научный результат. Вопросы теоретической и прикладной лингвистики</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2313-8912</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">DOI: 10.18413/2313-8912-2025-11-3-0-2</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3876</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>ТЕОРИЯ ЯЗЫКА</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>&lt;strong&gt;Малая проза через призму стилистики декодирования&lt;/strong&gt;</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>&lt;strong&gt;Sudden Fiction Through the Lens of Decoding Stylistics&lt;/strong&gt;</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Панасенко</surname><given-names>Наталия</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Panasenko</surname><given-names>Nataliya</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>lartispanasenko@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><institution>Университет Свв. Кирилла и Мефодия в Трнаве, Словакия</institution></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>11</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>0</fpage><lpage>0</lpage><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="/media/linguistics/2025/3/Лингвистика_11_3-27-45.pdf" /><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Целями проведенного автором исследования был анализ и систематизация различных видов стилистики (делая акцент на стилистике декодирования), а также анализ художественных текстов, которые принадлежат к очень специфическому жанру &amp;ndash; малой прозе (sudden fiction) &amp;ndash; представленной британскими и американскими авторами. Эти тексты рассматриваются через призму стилистики декодирования, или стилистики восприятия, ключевыми чертами которой являются краткость, непосредственность и внушительность; при этом выделяются самые общие техники декодирования текста: внимательное чтение, интертекстуальность, контекстуальный и стилистический анализ. Значительное внимание уделяется выдвижению как базовому понятию стилистики декодирования и его разновидностей, таких, как сцепление, конвергенция, семантический повтор, характерный признак, сильная позиция текста и эффект обманутого ожидания. Многочисленные примеры ярко иллюстрируют, какие из этих видов выдвижения наиболее важны в текстах малой прозы, как они переплетаются в тексте и с какой целью используются. Рассматривая малую прозу через призму стилистики декодирования и фокусируя свое внимание на выдвижении, автор показывает, что именно делает сигналы, адресованные читателю, более очевидными и понятными для него. Автор использует текстуальный, стилистический, лексический и контекстуальный анализ, что дает возможность более полно интерпретировать тексты малой прозы и расшифровать сигналы ориентации на читателя, закодированные автором в тексте. Результаты проведенного анализа текстов малой прозы показывают, что выдвижение реализуется в них главным образом благодаря характерному признаку и сильной позиции текста, которая включает его заголовок, начало и конец, а также благодаря конвергенции и эффекту обманутого ожидания.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Objective: The main purpose of the research is primarily to consider different types of stylistics focusing on decoding stylistics and its basic features, such as coupling, convergence, semantic repetition, salient feature and text strong position together with defeated expectancy. The subsidiary goals are to examine sudden fiction as a very specific genre in the prism of decoding stylistics and to specify types of foregrounding typical of it.

Background: Analysis of literature shows that various types of stylistics are based on different principles: types of general and specific character, diachronic approach, stylistics based on the relations between an author and a reader and some others. Discussing decoding stylistics, we must keep in mind its such important techniques as close reading, the role of intertextuality in proper text decoding, stylistic devices employed by the author as a means of encoding information and importance of reader-response theory.

Method: The article presents the results of the textual, stylistic, lexical, and contextual analyses of literary texts belonging to a very specific genre &amp;ndash; sudden fiction. Stylistic analysis covers all the language level: phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and lexical; its results are widely illustrated by numerous examples from the texts under consideration. As far as short fragments from the text are extracted as illustrations of the different types of foregrounding, contextual analysis appears to be very helpful in explaining signals of addressee-orientation hidden by an author.

Originality: Comprehensive multi-aspect approach to the texts of sudden fiction provides a new perspective in text linguistics in general and decoding stylistics in particular. The author not only analyses the role of foregrounding and its types, but connects it with information theory, intertextuality, types of plot development, and text strong positions.&amp;nbsp;

Result: Much attention in the study is paid to foregrounding as the basic notion of decoding stylistics as well as its types: coupling, convergence, semantic repetition, salient feature and text strong position, and defeated expectan&amp;shy;cy. Numerous examples vividly show which of these types are the most important in the texts of sudden fiction, how they are intertwined in the text, and with what purpose are used.

Conclusion: Though the hypothesis was that due to a specific genre of the considered texts, that is sudden fiction, the main types of foregrounding would be defeated expectancy, the results show that foregrounding in 152 texts of sudden fiction is realized mainly due to text salient feature, namely the title, the beginning and the ending of the text. Other very important types of foregrounding are convergence and defeated expectancy.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Малая проза (sudden fiction)</kwd><kwd>Стилистика декодирования</kwd><kwd>Выдвижение</kwd><kwd>Характерный признак</kwd><kwd>Конвергенция</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Sudden fiction</kwd><kwd>Decoding stylistics</kwd><kwd>Foregrounding</kwd><kwd>Salient feature</kwd><kwd>Convergence</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>Список литературы</title><ref id="B1"><mixed-citation>Abbasi&amp;nbsp;I., Al-Sharqi&amp;nbsp;L. 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