Abstract
The article is devoted to analysis of the subchapter “The workers of the river” fromthe literary and regional work “Thames: Sacred River” by Peter Ackroyd. The aimof the study is to substantiate the way of creation such a genre-hybrid based on integration of collective and individual knowledge in the frame of the theory of linguistic interpretation of the world and knowledge about the world as manifestation of the anthropocentric essence of language. Actualityof the research is determined by interdisciplinary approach to study of literary works from positions of literary studies, cognitive linguistics and text linguistics. Scientificnoveltyconsists in effective application of methodology of cognitive linguistics to explain mechanisms of formation of a new type of literary genre-hybrid. Methods of researchare the following: the conceptual and lingua-stylistic analysis as well as analysis of some textual categories.The main result of the study consists in the conclusion that the literary and regional genre of the analysed work is produced in the process of author’s secondary interpretation of factual information about the world with the help of corresponding cognitive and linguistic models of meaning formation as well as language means of its representation. Peter Ackroyd’s own vision and comprehension of the collective knowledge about river workers created additional interpretative meanings and expanded the content of the concept THAMES as a decisive factor for socioeconomicdevelopment of the region and country due to the formation of River labour market, formation of the first industrial and trade populationin England in the 18th-19th centuries,urbanizationof the river area and forming sociocultural types of river workers. The theoretical and practical significanceof the research lies in the applicability of its findings to various theoretical courses in Literature Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Text Linguistics, and Stylistics, as well as in practical seminars on Text Interpretation.