Cherenkova Yu.V.
RUSSIA LOCUS IN LYRIC POETRY: LEXICAL ASPECT ^{[№ 1 ' 2017]}
Anthropocentric orientation of modern scientific paradigm has led to an emphasis shift in language learning. In recent research language is considered not only as a system, but as part of the cognitive mechanism. Individual perception and conceptualization of reality, the subjective and objective factors to form the picture of the world are highlighted. Space is a fundamental philosophical category, so language representation of space perception within the various pictures of the world seems a standard area of concern to linguists. The poetry research is motivated by the identity of the national language means and a private code system (Yu.M. Lotman) that concentrates national cultural concepts, preserves and develops conceptual and figurative components of the basic concepts of the national picture of the world. This article studies S. Esenin, N. Klyuev, S. Klychkov and P. Oreshin poetry anthropocentrically through the cognitive features. Lexical explication of the “Russia” locus, a key space concept for the Russian artistic picture of the world, is examined. The author reveals “Russia” locus gestalts traditional to Russian literature in general and to lyric poetry particularly through the gestalt text analysis. The anthropomorphous gestalts are explicated through metaphors, comparisons, epithets, lexical identification in most analyzed texts. According to the author, the proposed aspect of research provides obvious identification of the language means to represent “Russia” space category, to follow “meaning augment” process and origin of associations, to comprehend how the individual images remain in a long-term national memory.