Conceptual and compositional organization of art historical commentary (based on the material of the german language)
This work is devoted to the study of the German-language art historical discourse. The relevance of the study is due to its significance for the general theory of communication and the duality of the phenomenon under study, which, on the one hand, refers to verbal language signs, and, on the other hand, appeals to the nonverbal cultural code. The object of this work is German-language art criticism communication in the form of a professional commentary - a creolized text combining verbal and nonverbal systems. The purpose of our research is to identify the specifics of the conceptual and compositional organization of professional art criticism commentary. To achieve this goal, comment articles in three art albums dedicated to the art of the last century were analyzed. The methodology of the work is based on the analysis of theoretical material, the continuous sampling method, the descriptive method and semantic analysis. In the course of the work, it was established that professional art criticism commentary is a structural unity, integral and complete in semantic terms, having a typed conceptual organization. During the analysis of the material, it was found that the composition of the German-language professional art criticism commentary is a relatively free sequence of four thematic blocks: factual and corresponding to three levels of interpretation descriptive, emotional-evaluative and symbolic. The presence of evaluative semantics in all thematic blocks of the commentary seems to be specific for the German-language art criticism commentary, although it is most concentrated in the emotional-evaluative block. At the same time, the subjectivity of the assessment is emphasized by the design of the information of the emotional-evaluative and symbolic blocks in the modality of the assumption.