The phenomenon of heterogeneity of the speech subject in German retrospective discourse
... prose. The types of autobiographical SELF mentioned in the relevant literary sources are considered. The forms of explication of the heterogeneity of the speech subject in German-language autobiographical texts are revealed, the main of which is the semantic opposition ‘present SELF — past SELF’, or ‘subject-reconstructor — subject-reconstruct’. The variability of the eventual plurality of the subject-reconstruct and the opposition ‘conscious SELF — unconscious SELF’ are interpreted as the ...
Semantic opposition as a means to explicate bipolar disorder in Stephen Fry’s autobiography Moab Is My Washpot
This article analyses the semantic oppositions essential for describing Stephen Fry’s bipolar affective disorder in his autobiography. This opposition is based on the ontological fragmentation of personality into the young I nar-rative and the mature I narrator. It is established that ...