semantic relationship of different elements of the text, performs emotional and esthetic,
phatic and cognitive functions, and is considered to be explicit means in defining the
author’s and reader’s images.
The purpose of the work is in the systematizing and classifying of the author`s
digressions in the literary English prose texts from the perspective of comprehensive
approach oriented to identify their lingvopragmatic properties, namely, detection of
such concepts as integration/non-integration of the author`s digression, study of the
types of cohesion of the author`s digression in the literary text space.
The originality of the work is determined by its correspondence to the general
direction of the modern linguistic studies from the theory of composition of the literary
text to establish the linguistic and pragmatic properties of the composition-and-plot,
composition-and-structural as well as composition-and-semantic units of the text.
The author`s attitude to the represented reality is transmitted using the author`s
digression, with them the author guides the reader to adequate decoding of his
communicative intention, designs the expected valuation of the described.
The author`s digressions can be included to any composition part of the text:
introduction, scenario, climax, and denouement. Composition-structural analysis of the
studied works showed that there is no stable trend to use author`s digression in the
certain segments of text.
The analysis of text-forming function of author`s digression contributed to the
defining the features of the cohesion of the literary text and included in it elements.
As revealed by the study, the author`s digressions have auto-semantics, but the
degree of auto-semantics is different in the author`s digression. After Galperin, we
define the auto-semantics, non-integration of the author`s digression on the lexical,
grammatical and semantic levels:
1. On the lexical level, non-integration included in the literary text of the story
differs by the absence of words and phrases repetition.
2. On the grammatical level, the lack of the deictic units and violation of the
uniformity of construction of structural and phraseological unity or paragraph are
found.
3. On the semantic level, non-integration is actualized with the not-related to the
literary text sentences, in the form of generalized formulas [17].
Thus, the auto-semantics of the author`s digression is implemented. Each
syntactic-stylistic type of the author`s digression (converged, diverged or converged-
and-diverged) can be integrated or non-integrated.
Non-integration of the author`s digression lies in their composition-semantic
independence.
Thus, for example, in a fragment from the novel by Maugham “The Moon and
Sixpence” we highlighted the converged author`s digression that is non-integrated due
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