MYSTICAL SYMBOLS IN THE CULINARY DISCOURSE OF JOAN HARRIS’S NOVEL “CHOCOLAT”

The article deals with analyzing the nature of Joan Harris’s novel “Chocolat” mystical symbolism. authors state that culinary discourse is a mixed, personal-oriented type communication, which manifested in everyday communication sphere has an institutional character. Foreign language Culinary represented by precedent texts recipes reflect specifics national culture, social and gender characteristics special uses certain professional-oriented signs – terminology, stable turns phrase, characteristic morphosyntactic structures. It noted sign are characterized symbolic nature, structuredness, presence cultural interpretants, individually authored coding, communicative orientation. Certain features image indicate it acts as connecting link between life world person linguistic representation this world. This done through process encoding spiritual values help means (signs). magic plot connected, first all, seniority. novel, written diary heroine her daughter, alternating letters Vianne’s antagonist, Curé Raynaud, to his father, intimates story from beginning, emphasizing specific symbolism characters’ All makes possible imagine chocolate substance evokes whole range sensations described detail novel.