INTERTEXTUALITY AS A SYSTEM-FORMING PRINCIPLE OF TEXT-BUILDING IN MODERN RUSSIAN PROSE (CAUCASIAN SEGMENT)
The aim of the article is identifying the specifics and functioning of intertextual and ethno-cultural signs in the Russian-speaking segment of the North Caucasian prose. Methods: system-typological, comparative-historical, structural, functional. Results. The authors find out that intertextuality forms the modern writers' stylistic manner, creates the semantic space of their texts, expresses the inner implicit basis through the external manifestation of the plot. Conclusion. Modern North Caucasian prose is a synthesis of ethno-mental symbols (archetypes, concepts and characters) and elements of intertextuality.