Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University753810.18287/2542-0445-2019-25-4-140-148UnknownIMAGE OF SOCIAL WORLD IN THE STORY «THE AMAZON» BY N.S. LESKOVTemnikovaN. Yu.<p>Candidate of Philological Sciences, associate professor, Department of Linguistics</p>morenov@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1588-6900Samara State Transport University3012201925414014830122019Copyright © 2019, Temnikova N.Y.2019<p>The article is about the language of The Amazon by N.S. Leskov (1866), which belongs to a series of essays about typical Russian female characters according to its genre, to a series of tales according to its stylistic manner. Besides it is included in the St. Petersburg text2 of Russian literature according to its motivational repertoire.</p>
<p>The basic unit of the analysis is a verbal artistic image as a semiotic and cognitive phenomenon. The image of the human world (in certain interpretations - social, material) was discussed in the text. It has been found that this image acquires the properties of an abstract language expressing diverse contents: subjective and objective, emotional and rational, subject-specific and symbolic-mythological etc. It is shown that the focus of the investigated image is crossed by semantic attributes belonging to different subject areas, which creates a multidimensional semantic space in which the reality reflected in the image undergoes an artistic transformation.</p>
<p>Our analysis revealed not only the communicative role of the image in the interconnection of author, text and reader, but also its poetic and aesthetic functions: through the crowded canvas created in the story, the ominous outlines of the world of Brueghel and Bosch Lotman are clearly visible, and ambivalence characters, creating a sense of the tragicomical absurdity of the universe, allows you to put Leskov on a par with such great Russian absurdists of the XIX century, as Gogol and Dostoevsky.</p>художественный текст, образ, языковой знак, семантическая двуплановость, метафора, метонимия, семантический континуум, поэтика абсурда, петербургский текст, коммуникативная функция, комическое, трагическое, амбивалентность.: literary text, image, language sign, semantic duality, metaphor, metonymy, semantic continuum, poetics of the absurd, St. Petersburg text, communicative function, comic, tragic, ambivalence.[Annensky 1979 – Annensky I.F. 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