LEXICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT “LAND” IN THE BOOK BY G. KOTOSHIKHIN «ON RUSSIA IN THE REIGN OF ALEXEI MIKHAILOVICH»

Abstract

This article is devoted to the analysis of the concept of LAND in the book by G. Kotoshikhin “On Russia in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich”. The use of the nominee - polysemant earth - in certain lexical-semantic variants as a frequent one indicates that in the book the most striking was such a thick layer of content of the concept, which reflected the peculiarities of the ideology of the author as a representative of his time, who when writing the book had specific tasks of a historian. On one hand, this is a spatial representation of LAND as a territory that may belong to someone, may be managed, economically used, may serve as a subject of sale and purchase (economic and political views); on the other hand, (spiritual, cultural-historical level) the land is spiritualized, is perceived as a sacred object, is considered the guardian of a person, that one should bow to. These views of G. Kotoshikhin, including those that remain in the implicit plan of the work, can be considered characteristic to the linguistic identity, established during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich, that came into contact with the national conceptosphere in the process of socialization.