P'atnychka T. Category of Presence and Means of its Realization in English Discourse of Fiction.

The dissertation focuses on the systematic analysis of linguistic means for the objective presence realization and the peculiarities of their functioning in fiction discourse. On the basis of these approaches associated with substantial, functional, and structural aspects of analysis the patterns of the language means for representing the presence are modeled and differentiated according to their value in denoting every of the defined semantic aspects of the presence; it is proved that each of the language means can denote 1) actual and non actual presence; 2) various semantic properties of the presence in different context; and can 3) correlate with the future/past. The stock of the language means for reproducing the presence is classified according to the zones of the functional-semantic field of the presence with respect to the commonness and interaction of their semantic functions, identified and illustrated in the process of their analysis.