Research methods of graphic coding of narrative polyphony in Englishpostmodern fiction text
The author focuses on the methods of graphic (visual) coding ofnarrative polyphony in English postmodern fiction text. Resting on integrative interdisciplinaryapproach applied to the study of the issue under analysis, the author substantiates that thegraphic surface of postmodern fiction text bears a particular layout, perspective and store ofgraphic (visual) signs originating from heterogeneous semiotic modes, both verbal and nonverbal. In this paper, the author defines and classifies visual signs as units of graphic codingof narrative polyphony in English postmodern multimodal fiction text. Graphic signs do not onlychange the graphic surface of the text, but also shape its new narrative structure, both of whichconstruct polysemantic content of the text. Sinking into multimodal research, the author provides a study of the nature of graphic innovationsas text units functioning on various text levels, both as attractors and distractors of its codedcontent that mirror linguistic norm democratization. By illustrating the applied methods in a textfragment from the English multimodal polyphonic fiction narrative, the author concludes thatgraphic coding units manifest postmodern fiction text as a synergetic whole in that the latter isa self-organized non-linear dissipative system that generates multiple ways of deconstructivetext interpretation manipulating the reader. The author strongly believes that the findings maygenerate consequent research in the field of multimodal narratology.