Propositional Approach to Analysing Denotative Structure of Secondary Texts (By the Material of Renderings of I. A. Bunin’s Short Story “The Hunchback’s Affair”)

Abstract

The article substantiates the relevance of the propositional approach to analysing the denotative structure of secondary texts as products of a reader’s interpretational activity. Stage-by-stage organization of the study has allowed the authors to identify the denotations of the original and secondary texts and to discover inter-denotational relations. The research findings are as follows: the authors have developed propositional models of the original and secondary texts, modelled global propositions, concluded on the propositional content of secondary texts and identified possible causes of errors when interpreting the main event of a text.