MAIN FEATURES OF THE ART CRITICISM DISCOURSE WITHIN THE TEXTUAL ACTUALIZATION OF THE ENGLISH LINGUO-CULTURAL CONCEPT “PAINTING” (IN THE MONOGRAPH BY G. REYNOLDS. “TURNER. WORLD OF ART.”)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the description of the art criticism discourse as a complex and multilevel
phenomenon. The author aims at studying its structure, constitutive characteristics and main features.
The criteria, according to which the author proves that the art criticism discourse is a kind of a more
general notion – discourse, are taken from V.I. Karasik`s theory of “constitutive-institutional discourse
characteristics”. The synergetic approach has been used to describe the structure of the art criticism discourse
that lies in the basis of the three-leveled model discovered by T.V. Efremova. In this model the
art criticism discourse is represented as a phenomenon that consists of three levels: microlevel, macrolevel
and megalevel. The extracts for the textual analysis are taken from G. Reynolds`s monograph
“Turner (World of art)”. As a result four main characteristics of the art criticism discourse are found out.
They are a high degree of the emotional colouring of the excerpts under analysis, the presence of special
terms that belong to the sphere of art, hypertextuality and the presence of a special conceptosphere.