Bagats'ka O. Concept BALANCE in Modern American Short Stories: Lexical, Grammatical and Narrative Aspects.

The dissertation focuses on lexical, grammatical and narrative manifestations of the concept BALANCE in modern American short stories. Its lexical and grammatical realization is determined by its immediate links with human bodily experience. In the analyzed texts verbalization of the initial balance, its upsetting and recovery is aimed at the characters' image literary enactment as a set of anthropomorphic features that involve the reader into the story's world. The reflection of personages' physical, psychic states and social interactions through the prism of the conflict makes the image of the character multifaceted and realistic. In literary texts characters' initial balance, its upsetting and recovery are indicated by the lexical nomination of the concept components: nouns highlight the source of balance upsetting or recovery; verbs refer to somatic and force components which relate the links between balance upsetting or recovery and the outer factors that affect; adjectives and adverbs refer to verticality as the basis of balance. Textual interrelation of the above lexical means is reflected in invariant and variant narrative schemes.