چکیده (انگلیسی):

The article focuses on basic literary concepts, represented and linguistically
verbalized in O.Henry’s short stories. An attempt has been made to analyze
O.Henry’s short stories from the point of view of different concepts, using their
figurativeness and revealing the main associations or images they carry. The main
technique lies in distinguishing thematic dominants from the thematic lines,
represented usually by thematic word (target concept) and in distinguishing thematic
images, represented by thematic word (source concept). All discovered images form
different conceptual metaphors, showing an ambiguous writer’s worldview that is
related to material (artefacts) and abstract (feelings, states) notions as well as to
humans’ activities and objects of animate and inanimate nature, that surround them.