SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF THE HEROINE'S INNER SPEECH AS A WAY OF REPRESENTING HER PSYCHOLOGICAL CRISIS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF ANNA KARENINA)

This article explores the syntactic peculiarities of Anna Karenina’s inner speech in Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece Anna Karenina as a sophisticated literary mechanism for depicting her progressive psychological crisis. Through detailed stylistic and psycholinguistic analysis, the study identifies and examines key syntactic features – including fragmentation, ellipsis, repetition, rhetorical questions, parataxis, and disrupted syntactic connections – that mirror the heroine’s emotional disintegration, identity conflict, guilt, jealousy, and existential despair. Following the IMRaD structure adapted for literary research, the paper demonstrates how Tolstoy’s innovative narrative technique transcends conventional description, offering readers direct insight into the chaotic workings of a tormented consciousness. The findings illuminate the intricate relationship between linguistic form and psychological depth, reinforcing Tolstoy’s status as a pioneer of psychological realism and providing valuable material for contemporary studies in literary stylistics, cognitive linguistics, and the representation of mental health in literature.本文以列夫·托尔斯泰的传世巨著《安娜·卡列尼娜》为研究对象，探析其中安娜·卡列尼娜的内部言语句法特质，将其视作描摹其渐进式心理危机的精妙文学机制。本研究通过细致的文体与心理语言学分析，识别并考察了若干关键句法特征——包括语句碎片化、省略、重复、反问句、意合结构以及句法关联断裂——这些特征恰如其分地映照出女主人公的情绪崩溃、身份冲突、负罪感、嫉妒心理与存在主义式绝望。本文遵循适配文学研究的IMRaD（引言、方法、结果、讨论）标准学术框架，论证了托尔斯泰的创新性叙事手法如何超越传统叙事描摹，为读者提供了直面饱受煎熬的意识之混沌运作状态的直接视角。本研究成果阐明了语言形式与心理深度之间的复杂关联，巩固了托尔斯泰作为心理现实主义先驱的学术地位，同时为当代文学文体学、认知语言学以及文学中心理健康表征的相关研究提供了宝贵素材。