Theoretical Foundations of Linguo-Aesthetics

Abstract

The article addresses the problem of overcoming the methodological gap in philological science concerning the lack of systemic analysis of the artistic potential of language. Amidst contemporary cultural transformations, digitalization, and the development of multimodal texts, there is an urgent need to create a comprehensive toolkit for interpreting innovative literary practices of the 20th and 21st centuries, where language manifests itself as an autonomous art object. The study aims to identify, structure, and systematize the key aesthetic devices of language based on the experimental prose of recent decades, as well as to develop an integrative methodological framework for analyzing language as an independent aesthetic category. The research is grounded in a synthesis of historical-literary analysis and the linguo-aesthetic approach. The authors integrate the tenets of formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and reception aesthetics, reviewing the evolution of linguistic expressiveness in retrospect — from ancient mimesis to avant-garde and digital practices. Data from corpus linguistics, cognitive science, and cultural studies are also employed. As a result, an integrative model of the aesthetic functions of language is proposed, which unifies the phonetic (alliteration, assonance), rhythmometric (pausing, intonation contours), semantic (metaphorization, polysemy, occasionalisms), and syntactic (inversion, parcellation) levels of the text into a single analytical matrix. The study substantiates the necessity of an interdisciplinary synthesis to investigate "cross-sign transitions" within the recipient's mind and creative products. The materials and findings of the article can be utilized in theoretical courses on philology, linguopoetics, semiotics, and discourse theory, as well as in the analysis of digital literature and performative practices.