Concept of HOMELAND in P. N. Shubin’s Poetic Picture of the World

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of HOMELAND in the poetic picture of the world of P. N. Shubin. The material of the study was the poetic texts by P. N. Shubin, which are considered as a form of linguistic representation of the individual author’s picture of the world. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that it is carried out in line with modern linguistic trends (cognitive linguistics and cognitive poetics) and contributes to the solution of such an important problem of modern gnoseolinguistics as the identification of the specifics of the national conceptual sphere and its constituent concepts. The findings of linguistic and cognitive analysis are presented. In the structure of the HOMELAND concept several interrelated conceptual fields are identified (city, country, native land, mother nature and home), cognemas are revealed in conceptual fields (road, spaciousness, beauty, grandeur, smell, fun - sadness, coldness - sun). This testifies to the versatility and complexity of this mental formation and allows to characterize it as a superconcept. Special attention is paid to the analysis of such specific means of verbalization of this concept in P. N. Shubin’s poetic picture of the world as place-names, method of step expanding an image, compressed form of expression, vivid metaphors, comparisons, epithets.

Keywords

• superconcept
• conceptual field
• cognema
• poetic picture of the world
• linguistic and cognitive analysis
• homeland
• poet p. n. shubin