Betsenko T. The language of Ukrainian National Dumas: text-image universals.

The paper identifies and analyzes the different language levels of duma epic units - the textual-image universals. Their nature and characteristic features are highlighted. The interaction of the notions of the text as the universum and the textual- image universals as a part of it; textual-image universal and the textual norm. The textual-image universal is characterized as a system unit, linguistic model, code, folklore sing-symbol.The structure, semantics and poetics of textual-image universals - macrounits - introductions and conclusions are analized. These macrounits are the elements of duma epic architectonics. Their importance for the compositional-image organization of an epical text determined.