Linguistic and cultural features of the concepts ‘Own’ and ‘Alien’ in the poetic idiolect of B. A. Akhmadulina

Abstract

The article is devoted to the description of the linguoculturological features of the functioning of one of the key concepts of Russian culture – 'Own' and 'Alien', which are included in the conceptual fields of traditional images of the house and garden (the poetic work of B. A. Akhmadulina served as the material). The study is sustained in line with the cognitive approach to the study of the concept sphere, contextual analysis of lexemes obtained by the method of continuous sampling from the National Corpus of the Russian Language is used. We consider various modifications and lexical representatives of concepts objectified in the Russian language. We have singled out the lexical level of their functioning (representation with the help of deictic elements – possessive pronouns own, mine, connotatively colored vocabulary (figurative and expressive means). Particular attention is paid to the axiological component of the meaning of lexemes that manifest the concepts under consideration: for example, the concept ‘Own’ implicitly or explicitly expresses a positive appraisal, in contrast to the concept ‘Alien’, associated with the concept of unacceptability. The analysis proved that the topos of the garden is invariably evaluated by the lyrical heroine B. A. Akhmadulina as her space, where her physical and spiritual life flows. It is connected with the theme of love, creativity, the irrevocably gone past, for which the lyrical heroine yearns. The concept of 'Home', on the contrary, often enters the conceptual field of 'Alien': the lyrical heroine feels abandoned, unprotected. The analysis of the content and volume of the concepts under consideration helps to reveal the specifics of the individual author's understanding of the dominant concepts of the cultural and individual author's picture of the world. The results of the study can be used in studying the methods of analyzing a textual concept in a course on cognitive linguistics, linguistic analysis of a literary text, as well as in literary disciplines devoted to the study of B. A. Akhmadulina.