WORDS WITH SEMANTIC COMPONENT ‘CITY’ IN Y. TRIFONOV’S NOVEL "HOUSE ON THE EMBANKMENT"

Abstract

Aim. To reveal the function of words with lexical and semantic field “city” in the language of Y.V. Trifonov’s novel “The House on the Embankment”. Methodology. The authors identified, classified and analyzed nouns, adjectives, adverbs and collocations with the semantic component ‘city’. Results. It is empirically confirmed that words with lexical and semantic field "city" in Y. Trifonov's novel "The House on the Embankment" perform an aesthetic function. They form a special changeable image of a city in the writer's artistic world. With their help the author shows a city as a background where events take place for forty years, as an integral part of characters' life and as a reflection of their inner world. Research implications. It consists in generalization of a significant vocabulary amount, which confirms the idea that a city plays an important role in Y. Trifonov’s artistic world and is its main locus.

Keywords

• urban prose
• locus
• semantic component
• metaphor
• symbol
• collocation