Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


prospection

The Prospective Function of Spatial Meanings in the Organization of a Fiction Narrative

The article studies the prospection of the contexts with spatial semantics. Analyzing the initial parts of A. P. Chekhov’s stories in order to identify their probable prospection the author determines the principles of how the spatial contexts of the beginnings correlate with the structure of the whole narrative.