on the side of male friendship, stressing the strength of these relationships with the
verb to increase. The lexical item love is repeated in sentences and in the main text,
and in the author`s digression. The author`s digression is included in the main narrative
with a demonstrative pronoun this with the reference to the lexical item love that creates
the lexical relation and provides the semantic unity of the text with the author`s
digression.
Sometimes for the relation of the author`s digression with the main text of the
story, the synonymous repetitions or expressions are used.
In the following example of the author`s digression from the novel by Kipling
“The Light That Failed”, the author uses the words of the same synonymous field:
Have I killed you?' Revolvers are tricky things for young hands to deal with.
Maisie could not explain how it had happened [30].
The cohesion of the author`s digression with the text of the main narration is
provided by the lexical items revolvers, to kill that refers to the same topic series
“crime.”
Among the author`s digression, there are such that are combined with the text
using the hyponymia. Hyponymia as the genus-species relations is the inclusion of the
semantically similar units in the corresponding class names. Hyponym is the concept
that expresses a partial essence in a relation to the other more general concept, and
hyperonym is the word with a wider meaning that expresses the common, genus
concept, the name of class (set) of pieces (properties, characteristics) [34].
Here is an example of the hyponimic cohesion from the novel by Maugham “The
Moon and Sixpence”:
I do not suppose she had ever really cared for her husband, and what I had taken
for love was no more than the feminine response to caresses and comfort which in the
minds of most women passes for it. It is a passive feeling capable of being roused for
any object, as the vine can grow on any tree; and the wisdom of the world recognizes
its strength when it urges a girl to marry the man who wants her with the assurance
that love will follow. It is an emotion made up of the satisfaction in security, pride of
property, the pleasure of being desired, the gratification of a household, and it is only
by an amiable vanity that women ascribe to it spiritual value [18].
In this example we highlighted the lexical items feminine response to caresses
and comfort that are hyponimic in relation to the lexical item of feeling. In the same
way the hyponimic lexical item emotion that is presented in the author`s digression,
and feminine response to caresses and comfort that is present in the main story.
Hyponymia is defined in terms of a one-side replacement: the text may have a
possible equivalent replacement of hyponym to hyperonym [34]. In this case, in the
main story the author uses hyponym, and in the text of author`s digression there is a
hyperonym.
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