THE PROBLEM OF DEFINING ENGLISH PARABLES AS TEXT AND DISCOURSE

Abstract

Based on the comparative analysis of definitions and previous studies, the article clarifies the linguistic status of the English parable discourse. It is defined that the parable discourse covers two types of discourses. A communicative event, heroes, a plot of the parable associated with a particular story correspond it to the artistic discourse, and the subtext and the moral and ethical lesson of the parable are characteristics of the instructive discourse. The research asserts that the English parable discourse is a communicative event, aimed at alleging spiritual values of human existence; this goal is realized in the discursive strategies of indirect communication between the author and the reader and provides symbolic meaning to the common objects and events described in the parable. Therefore, the English parable is a means of indirect communication, which allows doubling the deep content by reproducing it in the addressee.