Odourative space in literary text: gender aspect

The article analyzes the different ways of describing reality through the prism of olfactory perception in a fiction text. Olfactory perception is one of the most important phases of the human mind for the development of the objective world that is specifically embodied in a fiction text. At present, the interest in studying olfactory nominative space increases. This leaves open questions about gender-specific language incarnation olfactory images. Therefore, in this article on the material of the male prose XX - early XXI century. identify ways of verbalization odourativeimages, details the most frequent objects that are interpreted through the prism of perception odourative, finds significant for men's artistic discourse olfactory signs. The authors note that in the identified context containing the lexeme smell, often contain linguistic reflection on the lack of an adequate language unit, able to nominate what is perceived and conceptualized speaker. Consequently, the texts narrators taken various attempts substitution perceived verbal gaps (detailed commentary about their feelings, transfer odor standards, the nearest associations and others.) And at the same time recognition tool smell. The most frequent objects of reality, which fall within the scope of the male olfactory perception, are the following: people (mostly women) and its physiological characteristics; natural phenomena; the objective world; abstract quality and properties. It should be noted that in each of these groups dominate different meanings estimates associated with odor. For example, describing the scent of a woman, the narrator usually allocates positively perceived aromas; if we are talking about the smells caused physiologically, in such cases often focuses on the most pejorative (urine, decay and so on.). It should be noted that in today's men's artistic discourse, in contrast to the female, almost met the description odoricheskih images of the child. Stereotyping and versatility is evident in the description of the nature of odors. Olfactory function images are also different: characterization of the spaces, the distinction between his and others', marking the physical condition of the subject; verbalization of feelings and emotions, their changes, and others. In the latter case most clearly traced metaphorical potential odourative vocabulary, ability to act not only imaginative, but also text-forming agent.