MEANING FORMATION ACROSS LINGUISTIC LEVELS: A PHILOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF A LITERARY TEXT

This article develops and applies an integrative philological model of meaning-making that conceptualizes literary meaning as an emergent outcome of interactions across multiple linguistic levels.Drawing on complexityoriented, usage-based, and discourse-analytic approaches, the study argues that meaning in a literary text is not localized within isolated units but is dynamically constructed through the cumulative effect of phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, and discourse-level patterns.The analysis is based on a close qualitative examination of Atonement by Ian McEwan, selected for its dense interaction between linguistic form and plot development.At the phonological level, rhythmic organization, repetition, and sound density shape anticipatory meaning and guide the reader's interpretative