LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF TEXT WORLDS IN “THE COLLECTOR” BY JOHN FOWLES

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of creative modeling of text worlds in a literary text. The research material was the novel by the English writer John Fowles “The Collector”. The research is carried out within the framework of the theory of text worlds and cognitive linguistics. The relevance of studying this issue is due to the fact that the work makes a certain contribution to the clarification and development of a relatively new and little-studied topic in Russia – the theory of text worlds, the concept of text worlds is clarified, a scheme for their study is being developed, and a strategy for using deictic categories is being clarified. The results of the analysis show that the reader (and the researcher) “enter” the text worlds of the characters with the help of certain deictic categories, which, in turn, are verbalized by various linguistic means.