VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT “WOMAN” IN THE WORKS OF O. KOBYLIANSKA “HUMAN BEING” AND “PRINCESS”
Keywords:
inner world, gender attribution, ethnopsychological features, conceptualization, language portrait, image of a woman, work of fictionAbstract
The article deals with the characteristics of the mental foundations of an Ukrainian woman, which are manifested both in stereotypes of behavior and in the language of art. Linguistic means of expression of the inner world in the text are considered within the doctrine of the world picture. It is found out that the processes of cognitive activity (awareness of information) of a person lead to the formation of concepts. It is emphasized that gender attribution is of great interest in the psycholinguistic study of written texts of Ukrainian female writers, because behind the implicit concepts of women’s texts are stable cultural stereotypes. In the article certain attention is given to the fact that the implementation of the concept “woman” is characterized in the text by vocabulary aimed at conveying and revealing the inner world of the main heroines.
The verbalization of ethnopsychological features in the work of fiction is considered in connection with the linguistic features of portrait descriptions with manifestations of the inner world of the heroines. It is found out that the name of a woman is characterized mainly by nouns and adjectives with a positive connotation; the general characteristic of appearance is expressed by adjectives which are used for the description of hair, eyes and faces; personal characteristics of the heroines are verbalized primarily through the lexical and grammatical group of verbs included in common phrases.
It is determined that through a number of language means to denote the mental state and experiences of the main heroines conveyed the girls’ desire to achieve a proper position in a society, where women were restricted in rights and desires, and portrayed them as strong individuals who combine intelligence and willpower. The article analyzes the image of an Ukrainian woman in a view of the specifics of her behavior and in comparison with gender behavioral norms of a particular historical epoch.
