Avetisyan, A. F. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF “FEAR” (based on the data from the Gospel texts and Ch. Aitamtov’ novel “The Scaffold”) // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 3. P. 103–110. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.472


Linguistics

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF “FEAR” (based on the data from the Gospel texts and Ch. Aitamtov’ novel “The Scaffold”)

Avetisyan
A. F. 		Shirak State University after M. Nalbandyan
Keywords:
lexicosemantic fi eld
quasi synonym
nucleus
per nucleus
peripheral
near peripheral zones		 Summary: The relevance of the following article lies in the fact that Ch. Aitmatov’s novel “The Scaffold” has never been studied before from the cognitive linguistics point of view. For the fi rst time the author carried out comparative analysis of the verbal and nonverbal means of representing the concept of “fear” in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as well as gospel episodes in Aitmatov’s novel “The Scaffold”. Based on the existing studies in the fi eld of cognitive linguistics around the concept in general and the concept of “fear” in particular, an attempt was made to study the above mentioned concept in Aitmatov’s literary discourse. Using component-based and structural analysis as well as comparative data from linguistic and encyclopedic dictionaries, the structure of the concept of “fear” was identifi ed and described: the nucleus and per nucleus zones are represented by the nominee fear and its synonyms such as angst, panic, alarm, horror. The peripheral and near peripheral zones of the concept are verbalized using quasi-synonyms such as passion, timidity, fear, trill, horror, cowardice, as well as metaphors and epithets, respectively. The analysis of textual fragments revealed that linguistic means explicating the nucleus and per nucleus zones of the concept of “fear” in comparable sources actually coincide, while, when describing the peripheral and near peripheral zones, signifi cant differences were found in the use of linguistic means in the compared sources.



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