Book Review: Cherneyko, L.O. The Birth of Sense: The Semantic Structure of a Literary Text and Linguistic Principles of Semantic Structure Modelling. M.: Gnosis, 2017
Signiﬁcant scientiﬁc newness and actuality of presented and substantiated in the book principles of textual semantic space modelling, methods to determine the observer’s position in text as well as concrete problems of interrelation between “artistic consciousness” and “artistic consciousness” in the ﬁeld of interaction between text-writing and text-reading are accented in the review. The theoretical base of the L.O. Cherneyko’s linguistic principles of textual “semantic structure modelling” is scientiﬁc concept “hypertext” which is the research text model detecting non-linear sense relations of its lexical units and basing on their in-text paradigmatic connections. The “quant” of hyper-textual organization model of a text as well as the conductor into the world of meanings behind word-usages is “text paradigm” which is a minimal in-text structure based on multi-vector semantic associative connections. L.O. Cherneyko has also demonstrated suﬃcient extension of potentialities of usage of the scientiﬁc concept “observer” applied to analysis of forms of textual embodiment of subject time and space by means of postulating the ﬁgure of “meta-observer” (addressee, text) and including metaphor-deixis of various types in the ﬁeld of the analysis. As especial worth of the reviewed work the reviewer marks the breadth and variety of textual material for research, the non-trivial process of the analysis and the results obtained, serious prospects for their practical application as well. The reviewer comes at a conclusion that L.O. Cherneyko’s research combines scientiﬁc strictness with artistic brilliancy, poetic imagery and aphoristic manner.