Тема-рематическая структура образной ткани искусствоведческих статей и место синестетических тропов в ней

Abstract

The paper shows the results of the theme-rheme analysis of the figurative text structure of English and Russian articles on music and art and emphasizes the specific role and place of synes-thetic tropes in the examined articles. The figurative characteristics of the phenomena of music and art have been classified according to their theme-rheme structure, which revealed that the investi-gated texts in both languages and on both arts are similar in most respects. But the detected theme-rheme distinctions and the fact that the texts on music are more saturated with tropes in general and synesthetic tropes in particular than those on art are described as meaningful and significant and are attributed to the semiotic peculiarities of music and art.