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Abstract. In the article the semantic procedures of eduction of explicit macro-propositions that are organized in macrostructures and subjected to research as an independent linguistic phenomenon are described. The material of the study is literary texts: the story by the English writer Jerome K. Jerome "Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)" and the novel "The Mysterious Island" by Jules Verne. The novel was involved mostly for the comparison and verification of the data obtained by the material of the story. The author uses the translation of the story made by M. Donskoi and E. Linetskaya and the translation of the novel made by N. Nemchinova and A. Khudadova.

Key words and phrases: дискурс, эксплицитные макроструктуры, макропропозиции, ретроспективный эпизод, исторический экскурс, основное повествование, discourse, explicit macrostructures, macro-propositions, retrospective episode, historical digression, main narration