Spatial Images of Subjective Perception of Time in a Literary Text

The article deals with subjective perception of time, or psychological time, as a textual category and a literary image. It focuses on the sound images that are characteristic of different time perceptions-accelerated, decelerated and frozen (vanished). The research is based on the hypothesis that the category of subjective perception of time expresses different concepts and is formed by means of different text categories, including those of acoustic evaluation. The authors arrive at the conclusion that linguistic means expressing acoustic evaluation, i.e. words denoting sounds and their properties, play a significant role in modeling psychological time in a literary text as they enable a reader to "hear" the flow of time in a character's consciousness.