International Journal of Language & Literature

Linguistic Verbalization of Basic Literary Concepts in the Short Stories by O.Henry
Yuliya Davydyuk

Abstract
The article focuses on basic literary concepts, represented and linguistically verbalized in O.Henry’s short stories. An attempt has been made to analyze O.Henry’s short stories from the point of view of different concepts, using their figurativeness and revealing the main associations or images they carry. The main technique lies in distinguishing thematic dominants from the thematic lines, represented usually by thematic word (target concept) and in distinguishing thematic images, represented by thematic word (source concept). All discovered images form different conceptual metaphors, showing an ambiguous writer’s worldview that is related to material (artefacts) and abstract (feelings, states) notions as well as to humans’ activities and objects of animate and inanimate nature, that surround them.

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