Krotenko L. Tools of coherence category implementation in Ukrainian and English postmodern fiction (end of XX - early XXI centuries)

Krotenko L. B. Tools of coherence category implementation in Ukrainian and English postmodern fiction (based on prose of XX - early XXI centuries). - Manuscript . Thesis for a candidate degree in Philology in speciality 10.02.15 - General linguistics. - M. P. Drahomanov National Teacher Training University, Kyiv, 2014. The thesis suggests a new contrastive approach to the comparative study of implementation of coherence category on the basis of semantic-cognitive means by the linguistic-epistemic components of postmodern fiction text. It developes a comprehensive methodology for analysis of postmodern fiction texts with item of coherence category; author determined semantic and cognitive content of each linguistic-epistemic component in interaction, created a general anthropocentric system of postmodern coherent art-text -on the base of newly created communicative model. Keywords: text, discourse, coherence category, coherent text, postmodernism, linguistic-epistemic component, communicative model, anthropocentrism.