COTRAST AS BASIS OF AN IMAGE (IN THE ENGLISH FAIRY TALE)
The article is devoted to clarifying the peculiarities of expressive opposition semantics as a principle of dicteme text structure. Contrast as expressive opposition is presented as basic language phenomenon implementing the major text function -drawing the readers attention to the aesthetic information implied by the author. The research is focused on the structure of image as a system unit of hierarchy mega-image-macroimage- micro-image(text-image-imagery feature). The characterization, imagery feature, speech characteristics, psychological and station-temporal components are regarded as the basic elements of image structure. Contrast is recognized as the mode of the image structure organization and is realized within the body of a certain text, while its immediate carrier is a dicteme - an elementary topical unit of speech.