The Prototypal Framework of Fowles's Novel “The Collector”

This paper is devoted to the linguistic and cognitive peculiarities of the text, perception of correlation mechanisms -the author -the character -the reader -the interpreter.Some correlations of such a structure are based on the awareness of psycho-linguistic means of 'causing evil' in author's intention and in an adequate reader's orientation.The author examines the linguistic features of archetypes life and death on the basis of the conceptual prototypes of fairy tales "Bluebeard", "Beauty and the Beast", "The Tempest", representing the inner structure of "The Collector" on the basis of collective cultural experience.John Fowles uses such linguistic means as allusions, metaphorical and metonymic extensions of senses, entrenched meanings to coincide his characters with the conceptual prototypes of fairy tales deeply rooted in the language.It is postulated the idea that the conceptual analysis of the text includes the structural characteristics of natural language categorization cohesion and coherence and the relationship between language and thought.Cohesion refers to the specific features that link different parts of the discourse, i.e. a condition in which people or things are closely united.Coherence refers to the underlying functional connectedness of a piece of language that is components are combined in a logical, effective and well-organized, clear way that can be easily understood.