LEXICAL ASSOCIATIVE GROUPS IN THE SEMANTIC SPACE OF NOVELS BY JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issue associative aspect of semantic space of a fiction/literary text. The semantic space is identified in dynamics of the three axes of its unfolding, i.e. semantic, thematic and associative. The associative axis of semantic space unfolding is tracked down on the lexical level within lexical associative groups. The structure of lexical associative groups is presumed to consist of a number of associative rows/subgroups that stand in correlation with corresponding courses of associative progression.