INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR’S CONCEPTUAL OPPOSITION “HOPE / DESPAIR” IN L. CHILD’S NOVEL “NOTHING TO LOSE”

Abstract

The article considers a problem of textual verbalization of the conceptual opposition “hope/despair” in an individual perspective of the author’s worldview. The main attention is paid to the problem of the author’s transfer of concepts into the space of a literary text, which suggests a shift in the approach to the interpretation of the term “concept” itself, as well as its content and functioning. The analysis of linguistic manifestation of the concepts “hope” and “despair” in Lee Child’s worldview helps to establish that this binary opposition of concepts does not get textual representation of either conceptual signs or signs of its synonymic rows. The novel’s author is recognized to intentionally deviate from the traditional conceptual representation in favour of contextual actualization. This makes it possible to isolate 6 groups of contextual signs of the concepts under consideration. As a result of the study, the authors come to the conclusion that the individual-author opposition of the concepts “hope/despair” organizes the space of the novel, defining the main plot vectors and the content-thematic structure.