SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS OF RELIGIOUSLY MARKED ALLUSIONS IN THE LITERARY TEXT

Abstract

The article imparts the information on religiously marked allusions, their symbolic representations in English literary texts and analysis from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics. Among its other aspects, the research places particular emphasis on symbolic functions outperformed by allusions and in order to reveal the symbolic significance generated in the semantic layer of religiously marked allusions, the methods of conceptual analysis and conceptual blending were applied. The results of the analysis show that religiously marked allusions activate religious knowledge structures, implicitly symbolize abstract phenomena, convey conceptual meaning and express the author's individual world picture.