In this article are considered some latent senses. In particular in the analysis comes to lightconcept of the hole (abyss), which is given in verbal game, in a pun. The image of a abyss presensa cosmological background of the story and corresponds with such mythological categories, as thewoman and death. Thereupon are interpreted the Names proper of protagonists.
The paper considers the function of the lexicon with modal meaning (verbs and predicative words), which expresses various shades of the „situational” modality (possibility, obligation, volition) and develops the subjective modality. The study of A.P. Chekhov’s stories The Duel, Rothschild’s Violin, The Teacher of Literature, The House with an Attic, Anna on the Neck, The Lady with the Dog, Ionych, and the novelette A Boring Story has led to the conclusion that the differentiation between the objective and subjective modality is but arbitrary.
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