THEMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF INDIRECT IDENTIFIERS OF CHINESE WOMAN'S LITERARY IMAGE IN A. TAN'S NOVEL "THE JOY LUCK CLUB"
The article represents a thematic classification of one of the groups of indirect identifiers as criteria for selecting contexts to study a Chinese woman 's literary image. The identifiers group - external description of female characters - makes it possible to distinguish six thematic rows including description of Chinese women 's behaviour, their body / parts of body depicting, description of their hair, some other physical characteristics, indicating their age, and general estimation of Chinese women 's appearance. The article shows quantitative and qualitative filling of each thematic row explaining it from sociocultural position.