I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

literary text, linguistic world-image, concept, verbalization, actualization, discourse

The article is devoted to the study of linguistic and stylistic features of verbalization of the concept of love in the novel “Milkman” by Anna Burns. This paper notes the increasing importance of research in the field of discourse analysis, which allows us to study the text not as a frozen static formation, but as a dynamic and developing language product. The importance of studying the conceptual content of the discursive canvas of a literary text as a reflection of cultural, national and personal-authorial features is also noted. According to the researchers, being one of the main products of cognition, the concept serves as a rich material about the state of culture of various ethnic groups. The article describes various approaches to the structure of discourse analysis, the main points of which, according to T. A. van Dijk, are contextuality, dynamism and communicative nature. The authors of the article briefly discuss various principles and approaches to the classification of concepts. Special attention is paid to the artistic concept, which has unlimited potential due to its imagery and symbolism. The conducted conceptual analysis of the research material allowed us to conclude that the objectification of love as an axiological concept in the novel “Milkman” reveals the features of the value orientations of that time, acting as a kind of litmus test. The main means of verbalization of the concept under study in the analyzed novel are the lexeme of the direct nomination “love” and its derivatives, as well as the linguistic units included in its associative field.

Катермина Вероника Викторовна – доктор филологических наук, профессор кафедры английской филологии Кубанского государственного университета, г. Краснодар, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9141-9867, veronika.katermina@yandex.ru

Балаева Мария Вадимовна – соискатель кафедры английской филологии Кубанского государственного университета, г. Краснодар, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5694-5957, balaevaa89@gmail.com