{"id":573,"date":"2019-10-05T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T14:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/?p=573"},"modified":"2019-10-18T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:50:34","slug":"28_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/2019\/10\/05\/28_7\/","title":{"rendered":"STYLISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING TRANS-HUMANISM IN \u201cSPRAWL\u201d TRILOGY BY WILLIAM GIBSON"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donets Paul\"pdf\"<\/a>
\nState Institution \u201cSouth Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky\u201d, Odessa, Ukraine
\nE-mail: dp85@ukr.net
\nORCID ID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000\u20130001\u20136759\u20130920
\nDOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24195\/2616-5317-2019-28-7<\/p>\n

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Key words: immortalism, cyberpunk, cyberspace, posthuman, science fiction, transhumanism.<\/p>\n

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The article examines stylistic devices in which American-Canadian writer William Gibson expresses transhumanist ideas. The author is famous for being one of the pioneers and brightest representatives of science fiction subgenre, known as cyberpunk. His debut trilogy \u201cSprawl\u201d, which touches upon social, moral and ethical issues of using advanced technologies, has been chosen as an object to be studied. It is found out that the message translated by the author is controversial: while having some obvious transhumanist indications, it also has various alarmist traits, which can be observed at stylistic and lexical level. In its simplest form, this is manifested in the special use of epithets, metaphors, similes, hyperbolas and other stylistic means. In some cases the series rather opposes transhumanism than reproduces its techno-optimistic discourse. It follows the warning trends of modern English-language science fiction, relying on such classic dichotomies as \u201cnatural \/ artificial\u201d and \u201chuman \/ non-human\u201d. The tropes and figures of speech used by the author are in most cases emotionally expressive, that is, they contain elements of value (both positive and negative).<\/p>\n

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Donets Paul State Institution \u201cSouth Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky\u201d, Odessa, Ukraine E-mail: dp85@ukr.net ORCID ID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000\u20130001\u20136759\u20130920 DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24195\/2616-5317-2019-28-7 Key words: immortalism, cyberpunk, cyberspace, posthuman, science fiction, transhumanism. The article examines stylistic devices in which American-Canadian writer William Gibson expresses transhumanist ideas. The author is famous for being one of the ...continue reading \"STYLISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING TRANS-HUMANISM IN \u201cSPRAWL\u201d TRILOGY BY WILLIAM GIBSON\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-64","h-entry","hentry","h-as-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingstud.od.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}