Valuation of the motif of ‘Ojczyzna’ and ‘Synczyzna’ in Trans-Atlantic by Witold Gombrowicz in the light of the methodology of interpretative semantics

Abstract

The objective of the paper is to analyze the contextual valuation of the sememes ‘Father’ and ‘Son’ in Witold Gombrowicz’s Trans-Atlantic from a microstructural and interpretative point of view. Since the interpreted semantic content is definitively configured only in context, the sememes analyzed here are considered as elements of a whole network of semantico-discursive reports, both paradigmatic (semantic classes) and syntagmatic (isotopies and isotopic beams that can be identified at the level local than global). The value attributed to the sememes ‘Father’ and ‘Son’ results here from the interrelation of different elements of the context that challenge the normative evaluation content (for the sememe-type) and introduce semantic opposition in the texte to achieve an expected artistic effect.