FORMAL AND SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF THE ARTISTIC IMAGE "THE WIND BLOWS" IN I. BUNIN’S FICTION

Abstract

Aim. Description of language representation of the figurative constant "wind blows" in landscape discourse of I. Bunin and analysis of speech forms and semantic structure of the verbal image. Methodology. The author analyzes the sum of contexts containing the word image "wind blows", identifies the paradigmatic and syntagmatic properties of the subject and predicate component of the image constant, and describes the lexical, stylistic, and aesthetic functions of the paradigm members. By statistical analysis, the frequency of the verbal image is specified. Through descriptive and comparative analysis, the image's polysemantic structure is revealed, the number of lexical and semantic variants and their figurative meanings are specified, and the direction of motivation is specified. The author develops the previously proposed method of linguistic analysis of the category of imagery of a prose text based on image constants, which is associated with studying stable and reproducible language structures of the writer's artistic thinking. Results. The research results are based on the application of the main provisions of the evaluation theory in the linguistic analysis of the text. Methods of idiostyle formal variation in the Bunin language were identified. Research implications. The results of the research contribute to the Methodology of linguistic analysis of the text. The article highlights the poetic methods of functioning of verbal images, the stages of forming an integral figurative meaning in a special type of speech unit of a literary text.