Author code by Jane Austen: cognitive aspect

The immediate subject of research in this article is the narrative features of Jane Austen's novels and, at the same time, the essential features of her idiostyle. We consider the system of distinctive Austen ways of using language as a stylistic code of narration or narrative. We consider how J. Austen "orders and comprehends" the surrounding reality in her novels through a number of narrative features and linguo-stylistic means. Their division into two main groups allows us to structure modern ideas of critics and researchers about the author's style of the writer, as well as to deduce two key features of her novels: the objectivity of the presentation of events and theatricality, similarity to dramatic works. The conclusions presented in the article are related to the prospects of "Austen studies", since the analysis of critical discourse has shown that only a cognitive understanding of the creative heritage of J. Austen will allow us to fully reveal the true potential and intentions of the author's consciousness in the future. In particular, the article analyzes the Austen narrative in the context of cognitive poetics and theory of mind. For the first time, Austen's research highlights the phenomenon of embedded consciousness and intersubjectivity in the interpretation of her novels, and states pseudo-realism and pseudo-moral teaching as essential characteristics of her creative writing. One of the results of the work is the justification for using the terms "code", "scheme", "algortim" to reveal the cognitive-semiotic potential of Jane Austen's novels. The presented analysis is concerned with modern literary and linguocognitive works about Austen's legacy in Russia and abroad.