PECULIARITIES OF VERBALIZATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF DEFEATED EXPECTANCY IN THE NOVELS «CROOKED HOUSE» AND «FIVE LITTLE PIGS» BY A. CHRISTIE

The article deals with the analysis of some means of verbalization of the principle of defeated expectancy in the structure of a literary text, on the basis of the detective novels “Crooked House” and "Five Little Pigs" by A. Christie. As a violation of the subjective reader's prospectus, defeated expectancy is formed under the influence of certain factors of the expectancy horizon created in the process of linear speech deployment. Among the means of forming the horizon of the reader's expectancy, genre words are distinguished, the potential of predictability of which increases when they are placed in the salient positions of headlines. On the basis of the analysis of practical material with the use of methods of interpretation and contextual analysis, the author concludes that the creation of the impact of defeated expectancy can be facilitated by quoted intertextual inclusions from precedent texts, the plot of which contrasts with the plot of the borrowing text, so that the effect of defeated expectancy will be maximum. The case-name may cause the association with the precedent situation, or with some qualities inherent in the character of a precedent text, which creates a certain model superimposed on the plot of the literary work. The reader automatically transfers features characteristic of the hero of the precedent text to the image of the character of the detective work. This contributes to the perception of detective text as a game, because the text which is input from the position of another method of coding is perceived as conditional and acquires new shades of meaning.