The semantic expression of “a labor”, “an expanse” and “a will” key concepts of the Russian linguistic world view in the poetry of A.V. Koltsov

Abstract

This article demonstrates methodological techniques and fundamentals of anthropological linguistics by means of examples from Russian belletristics. Special attention is paid to the “key” concepts of the Russian linguistic world view, which to the fullest degree accumulate the ethnocultural meanings. Namely, the basic concepts of the Russian linguistic world view “a labor”, “an expanse” and “a will” and their representation in the artistic space of Alexey Vasilyevich Koltsov’s work are analyzed. The authors identify the specifics of the manifestation of the national linguistic world view stable concepts semantics in relation to the individual artistic picture of the world, determine how the concept of “labor” is foregrounded and romanticized in the poetry of A. Koltsov and establish the lexical and semantic field of the concepts “an expanse” and “a will”.