Sokolova, M. G. COMPARATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FIGURATIVE FIELDS “POPLAR – HUMAN” AND “MAPLE – HUMAN” IN RUSSIAN POETRY OF THE XIX AND XX CENTURIES // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 7. P. 45–53. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.538


Linguistics

COMPARATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FIGURATIVE FIELDS “POPLAR – HUMAN” AND “MAPLE – HUMAN” IN RUSSIAN POETRY OF THE XIX AND XX CENTURIES

Sokolova
M. G. 		Togliatti State University
Keywords:
Russian poetry
dendronyms
tropes
fi gurative fi eld
fi gurative paradigm
poetic image
semantic characteristic
anthropomorphism		 Summary: The article studies the dendronyms poplar and maple as parts of comparative tropes in the poetic texts of the XIX and XX centuries from the fi gurative fi eld perspective. This is the fi rst-of-its-kind comparative multi-aspect characterization of the fi gurative fi elds “poplar – human” and “maple – human” based on such criteria as the composition of fi gurative paradigms, fi eld areas, and actualized semantic features. When systematizing the fi gurative means of language, the author adheres to the semantic fi eld principle, ideographic principle, and the theory of reproducibility and paradigmatism of poetic images. The composition of fi gurative paradigms in the structure of the studied fi elds is revealed through the similarity of the vehicles: 1) “poplar / maple – human behavior”; 2) “poplar / maple – social features of a human”; 3) “poplar / maple – external features and internal qualities and properties of a human”; 4) “poplar / maple – human body parts”; 5) “poplar / maple – biblical or mythological creatures, etc.”; 6) “maple – groups of people”. The structure of the studied fi elds is described by the fi eld areas (core, center, periphery) on the basis of the total number of vehicles, the number of repeated vehicles, and the frequency of their reproduction in poetic contexts. The semantic features actualized by the stable, repeated vehicles characterizing the said dendronyms are identifi ed: 1) general features (‘sound’ (whisper), ‘activity’ (watch, listen, walk), ‘state’ (sleep), ‘shape’ and ‘location’ (head)); 2) specifi c features of the dendronym poplar (‘sound’ (sing), ‘activity’ (run), ‘characteristic’ (lonely, lazy), ‘age’ (young), ‘shape’ (high, slender), ‘shape’ and ‘location’ (eyes, hands)); 3) specifi c features of the dendronym maple (‘action’ (bow), ‘age’ (old), ‘shape’ (curly), ‘shape’ (heart), ‘color’ (crimson)). The developed methodology of structuring the fi gurative fi elds of the dendronyms poplar and maple in Russian poetry can be applied to the study of the fi gurative potential of other groups of words within the semantic fi eld “Plants”.



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