Reflections as a representation of the author's modality in literary discourse

The article is concerned with the problems of author’s reflections to literary discourse analysis and outlining explication of the author’s linguistic personality from the main assumptions of anthropocentric paradigm. The aim is to study features of the functional meaningful type of text. In the focus of attention are the following issues: the notion of the author’s reflections, cognitive principles of presenting information in the text, foregrounding, autosemantic, author’s individual world picture.