I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

: conceptualization, categorization, semantics of wine drinking, drinking culture, national mentality, individual author’s image of the world, language worldview

The article discusses some peculiarities of the representation of the situation of wine drinking in the novel by Lyudmila Ulitskaya “The Kukotsky Enigma” (2000). The purpose of the study is to determine the accents placed by the author in the process of creating the specified semantic fragment. The relevance of this research is due to the fact that a part of the fragment of the semantic field of wine drinking in its individual author’s interpretation in the text is developed and described. The author pays close attention to three aspects of understanding the situation of wine drinking such as the national specifics of the concept of “Russian alcoholism” presented in the novel “The Kukotsky Enigma”, its semantics; some professional stereotypes; the description of the lifestyle and habits of Kukotsky as a particular variant of the representation of national and professional influence. It is revealed that the national bacchanalian stereotypes express the spiritual and ideological semantics of the wine-drinking culture, the stereotypes of the professional sphere are associated with the socio-hierarchical one, and Kukotsky’s habits in wine-drinking are correlated with utilitarian and functional semantics. It is noted that the main parameters that characterize the nationwide bacchanalian stereotypes are the locus, the introduction of a quantifier of universality or other words with the semantics of inclusiveness, a generalized subject, an ethical assessment, and the dichotomy of friend and foe is also involved. It is concluded that the vocabulary of professional stereotypes differs from that used in national stereotypes in that it contains subjective-evaluative word-forming elements.

Димитриева Ольга Альбертовна – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры русского и чувашского языков Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: olgaal_79@mail.ru