Author’s name:
Tatyana P. Pomerantseva
Abstract:
The article presents the next stage of a comprehensive linguo-cognitive analysis of the Rus-sian cultural concepts of “chelovek” (man) and “l’udi” (men) from the point of view of the general linguistic picture of the world and in terms of how they function in the fiction of writ-er Varlam Shalamov. The primary goal of this study is to analyze the linguistic objectification of these concepts in derivational relations of their representative words. The research material is the data of Russian derivational and explanatory dictionaries. The research methodology is based on the principles of the anthropocentric approach to analyzing language data, linguistic conceptualization of the world, and the linguistic picture of the world. The analysis of the concepts of “chelovek” (man) and “l’udi” (men) follows the method of conceptual analysis developed by the Nizhny Novgorod scientific school and includes a review of the extralin-guistic content of each concept in philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, etc., its deri-vational features, as well as phraseological and paremiological relations of their representative words. The novelty of the research lies in considering “chelovek” (man) and “l’udi” (men) in the Russian linguistic picture of the world in terms of their word-formation connections and relations as two separate concepts and not only two grammatical forms of expressing the same concept. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of using its results in compiling linguoculturological dictionaries and in teaching linguoculturological disciplines. Analysis of word-formative nests of the words “chelovek” (man) and “l’udi” (men) demon-strated that in the derivatives of the word “chelovek” (man) predominant semantics were re-lated to themes of morality, humanism, and compliance with moral norms. In contrast, for the derivatives of the word “l’udi” (men) the most frequent were the semantics of the degree and process of filling space with people as well as social semantics. Further analysis of the deriva-tional features of the words “chelovek” (man) and “l’udi” (men) confirmed the opposition of these concepts in terms of the semantic parameter “individuality – collectivity,” which mani-fested itself at an early stage of the study. The results of the conceptual analysis allow us to conclude that there is a significant difference in the semantic content of the concepts “che-lovek” (man) and “l’udi” (men), which confirms the original hypothesis about their function-ing in the Russian linguistic picture of the world as two different concepts.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2021-55-3-99-110 |
| Downloads | 466 |
| Key words | concepts of “chelovek” (man) and “l’udi” (men); derivatives; language explica-tion; linguo-culturology; Russian language |