The author’s semantic choices in literary texts (a study of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasy novels)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31558/1815-3070.2025.50.4Keywords:
literary text, the category of the addresser, the category of the addressee, coherence, referential (conjunctive, thematic-rhematic, thematic) coherence, discourse, context, text, semantics, functionAbstract
The paper examines literary text as a form of communication between the addresser and the addressee. It outlines the category of the addresser as a communicative one, manifested through the linguistic means that coherence establishes at the formal, semantic, and communicative levels of the text. In the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling employs semantic language tools – such as referential, conjunctive, and thematic coherence, as well as thematic-rhematic semantic relations and their types – to communicate with the reader. The recipient’s task is to detect, comprehend, and interpret the author’s intention semantically encoded in the literary text.
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