LEGAL KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER INTO LITERARY NARRATIVE AS SOCIO-CULTURAL PRACTICE (ON ENGLISH NOVEL THE CHILDREN ACT BY I. MCEWAN)
This article examines the content of the concept child welfare in the novel The Children Act by the British writer I. McEwan in the process of transferring legal knowledge into literary narrative. The fundamental link in the research is the significance of the functions of the narrative for social purposes, subordinate to the main strategy - to transmit knowledge of the closed legal sphere into the novel genre. The legal knowledge transfer into literary work is studied from the standpoint of sociocultural practice, which has a number of pragmatic goals. The author proposes a comparative approach to the study of the social and verbal context of a hybrid literary-legal discourse on the basis of the Children Act 1989 in the UK. The key component of the concept of “child welfare” is the complex of duties that the court as the highest body of the judiciary performs in order to provide all the necessary conditions for the upbringing and development of a child’s personality. The concept of the study of literary-legal discourse (LLD) through a narrative model of the LLD allows us to trace changes in the content of concepts in the literary picture of the world. The methodological research techniques include a number of methods: structural-semantic method, contextual analysis method, continuous sampling method, conceptual analysis, comparative analysis. In the course of the study, conclusions were drawn about semantic transformations in hybrid discourse and about the actualization of some implicit components of the socially significant concept of “child's well-being”.