n, it fills with concrete meaning.the course of plat development, the words chosen by the author for the title begin to acquire some additional, connotative shades of the meaning, extend their semantic structure. The title can be metaphorically depicted as a wand up spiral, revealing its potentialities in the process of unwinding. 2 an example, we can take a little of W. Sarayon s story Laughter . The story describes a small episode from school life. Its content cam briefly reduce to the following: the teacher, Miss Wissing, makes her pupil Ben laugh for a whole hour, because he had laughed at the lesson. Laughter - a punishment! Laughter under coercion! The conceptions expressed by the word laughter in the aspect described concrete of laughter, containing a positive emotional evolution. The writer imparts quite a different shade of meaning to the word laughter . It is associated development alongside in the time with the unfolding of the context information.the initial lines ( You want me to laugh? he felt lonely and ill in the empty classroom ...) comprise the contrast of mood, rooting on the side, in the word Laugh and, on the other side, in the words ill, lonely . This contract is increased by the conveyance of feelings experienced by the boy: surprise, perplexity (it was strange), fear (it was frightening), disgust (it was disgusting), sorrow, sympathy (he left sorry, he felt sorry), and shame (he was ashamed, shameful weeping in his voice). Revealing the child s inner struggle the writer shows how the text of the story is modifying the semantics of the title, which acquires the following implicit meanings: pity and sorrow, indignation and contempt, sympathy and support.often, the title of imaginative texts is connected with content-conceptual information only indirectly.the meaning of a title is veiled by a metaphor or metonymy. In E. Caldwell s story Wilds flowers , the title, expressed by the a metaphor , helps the reader to penetrate deeper into the content of the story, to understand its idea. The story shows tragic destiny of two young people dismissed and evicted by the pro-praetor. The main ides of the story lines on the surface-it exposes the brutal foundation of bourgeois society. Using the example of the young family, which for failing to pay the rent was turned, out of the hose in sprite of the * fact the young woman was expecting a c...
