Images of the USA and Romania in Jeffrey Archer’s novel ‘False Impression’

the material of the study was artistic images and forms of their language actualization in Jeffrey Archer’s detective novel ‘False Impression’, where the writer presents his vision of a rather wide geographical space, encompassing countries such as the UK, the USA, Romania, Japan, and Russia. The article examines the images of two countries: Romania and the USA. The study uses linguistic, stylistic and cultural methods of research, allowing to analyze the specifics of language units used by the author in describing different countries and to identify Archer’s attitude to the countries, events, and the characters, and to define the author’s picture of the world. The study leads to the conclusion that the text helps to identify, on the one hand, individual characteristics of the author’s worldview and, on the other hand, the national-cultural picture of the world to which the author belongs. So, the author is generally positive about the USA, he stereotypically sees Americans as hardworking, businesslike, enterprising, ready to help each other in trouble, although some realities are depicted with gentle humor, while Romania and Romanians are described as degraded and frightened, having no prospect of improvement. The results (and materials) of the research can be used to develop the concept of language and artistic/linguistic world picture, as well as in the preparation of teaching manuals on cultural science and cultural linguistics.

linguistic world picture, subjective worldview of the author, national worldview, author’s world picture, artistic work, system of images