DENOTATIVE CONTENT OF THE FUTURE TENSE IN THE TEXT

The article is devoted to the linguistic study of the literary English text using the example of considering the denotative content of future tense, where the main role belongs to the absolute anthropocentricity of the text. The relevance of the article is that during recent decades the interest of philologists to the issues of text structural-semantic organization and especially to the literary text has significantly increased. However, in our opinion, the denotation aspect of the future tense, associated with the author's individual knowledge of the world, is not well investigated. It concerns the modern view on the denotative future tense as on one of the fundamental problems of linguistics. The author identifies the components of the denotative content, explores its expression using the examples of the contemporary literary sources and comes to the conclusion that they can be expressed in the form of the global situation, macro- and micro-situations. In the process of research their main characteristic is given, the specific denotative content of the future tense, which is based on the images of the main characters are determined. In the result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion, that the future tense is the expression of categorization of tensed situation of the reconstructed author’s real world. The system of denotative tense, which is formed in the man’s thinking, represents a dynamic situation form described in the text. This form is called the denotative structure of the text and reflects the structure of its content, which is the result of thinking and understanding. In addition, the components of the denotative future tense are restricted by the global situation and the macrostructure of the text. They also carry the information individually significant for the author. The specific of the denotative future tense is in its referential meaning appeared in the images of artistic characters. It means that the future tense represents the overcoming of the discrepancy between the linear connection of events in the text and its comprehensive content. The result of this linguistic study is a new concept of the text semantic organization which considers the text as a complex structure formed in the result of communication between the author and the reader.