Corpus explica-tion of semantics of the dichotomous concept “Life – Death” in the Russian linguistic picture of the world
Lyi S. Polyakova E.V. Dzholdasbekova B.U.
2024RUDN University
Russian Language Studies
2024#22Issue 191 - 102 pp.
The conceptual dyad “Life – Death” in the Russian linguistic picture of the world is analyzed. The relevance of the research is conditioned by the existential signifi-cance of the studied phenomenon in the axiological field of the Russian linguistic picture of the world. The aim of the study is to conduct corpus analysis of the conceptual dyad “Life” and “Death”. The research material includes 70 poetic units containing the nuclear lexemes “Life” and “Death” in the Russian National Corpus. The poetic units are semantically complete contexts of poems by Russian poets (M. Tsvetaeva, M. Voloshin, S. Esenin, Z. Gippius, etc.). Descriptive method, conceptual analysis, method of linguistic-cultural commentary, contextu-al analysis, corpus method were applied. It was concluded that the concepts “Life – Death” reconstruct the dominant features of the Russian linguistic picture of the world, which is cha- racterized not only by qualitative heterogeneity, but also by a certain bipolarity in the subjects behavior (agenticity vs passivity, providentiality vs activity, etc.). Such semantic parameters of the concepts “Life” and “Death” were established as transience and uncontrollability of life; life as an element, where a person is not an active subject, but an object for external forces; transience of life and its unpredictability; belief in life after death; death as a transition to other-ness. The explanatory context for adequate commenting of conceptual meanings is formed.
basic universals , concept , conceptual dyad , contextual analysis , poetic text , precedent text
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