CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE LOCAL SPACE OF KYIV IN THE LANGUAGE OF ARTISTIC PROSE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article examines the linguistic features of the conceptualization of the local space of the “Kyiv” mindset in the language of artistic prose by two outstanding Ukrainian writers of the 20th century. – V. Pidmohylnyi and P. Zahrebelnyi. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the local-spatial constant of the linguistic-cultural concept of the proper name “Kyiv”, reflected in the artistic discourses of artists, captures many urban and natural objects, which partially reflect the extremely complex topographical and coordinate grid of the real city. The system of urbanonyms, which represent the specifics of the individual and linguistic pictures of the world of novelists in terms of fixing the realities of the same city in different historical periods of its life, is studied. From the point of view of linguistic stylistics, a comparative analysis of expressive and figurative means of addressing the “Kyiv” mindset in the novel “The City” by V. Pidmohylnyi and in a number of historical novels and works about modernity by P. Zahrebelnyi was carried out. It is noted that the study of the verbalized constant of the local space of the city is an important issue not only for integrative linguistic stylistics, but also for cognitive linguistics, conceptology, linguistic and cultural studies, etc. The semantic-stylistic and logical-cognitive transformations of the internal forms of a number of proper names, which in P. Zahrebelnyi's artistic discourse have consistently evolved from an urbanonym to a concept have been traced. It was concluded that V. Pidmohylnyi, having “immersed” Stepan Radchenko, a rural man, in the urbanized space with its anthropogenic landscape, was one of the first Ukrainian writers of the beginning of the 20th century. conceptualized the city as a determining factor in the civilizational and historical development of society. In the artistic discourse of P. Zahrebelnyi, numerous linguistic units that nominate the real landscape of the city reflect the philosophy of the author's vision of Kyiv as a unique, originally Ukrainian city, as it appears in the national-linguistic picture of the world.