FIGURATIVE NOMINATIONS CHARACTERIZING PERSONAGES IN J. FOWLES’ NOVEL "THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN"
The article deals with the analysis of the figurative nominations that feature the characters in J. Fowles ’novel «The French Lieutenant ’s Woman». The dominating type of nominations is metaphor. The intensification of the illocutionary force of the figurative nominations is achieved by the multilateral structure of the nominations, the actualization of the appropriate axiological status of the lexemes and other factors.