Arkhipova I. Author's Digression in the English Prose: Linguistic and Pragmatic Aspects

This dissertation focuses on revealing structural, syntactic and pragmatic properties of author's digression in English literary prose of the XIX-XX centuries. Author's digression is determined as an autosemantic compositional unit of literary text, which ensures 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. Convergent and divergent types of inserting author's digression into literary space of the text have been distinguished based on syntactic and stylistic analysis. Lingual and cognitive approach made it possible to distinguish communicative functions of compositional and speech forms of author's digression, lingual and pragmatic analysis highlighted pragmatic types of sentences within author's digression. Key words: author's digression, autosemantic, literary text, convergent, divergent, compositional and speech forms, pragmatic types.