SUPER-SUBJECT TIME IN LITERARY TEXT

Abstract

The article firstly deals with a super-subject time to identify the distinctive features and functional characteristics of this type of a literary time. We used the methods of linguistic description, structural-functional modeling and contextual analysis. The analysis of the literary texts of various genres showed a non-obligatory presence of super-subject time expressed with such textological structures as sequel, epilogue, conclusion. It revealed that super-subject time was characterized by movement into anti-time zone being the final type in a chain of literary time limiting the literary text on right side. The theoretical relevance is confirmed by development of the existing concepts of the text nature by introduction of literary time category as a text-forming base with the revealing its constituents and their distinctive features. Practical relevance is reflected in possibility of using the results both in teaching and in further research work on the nature of the text.