Kononchenko, Y ETHNOCULTURAL CONCEPT OF “NATURE” IN THE POETIC WORLDVIEW OF DONBASS WRITERS. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2022;44(1):36–42. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2022.712


Linguistics

ETHNOCULTURAL CONCEPT OF “NATURE” IN THE POETIC WORLDVIEW OF DONBASS WRITERS

Kononchenko
Yu. A. 		Lugansk State Pedagogical University
Keywords:
ethnocultural concept
poetic worldview
author’s personal worldview
Donbass poets
bilingualism		 Summary: Modern linguistic research pays special attention to the study of the interconnection between concepts and a specifi c ethnic group, as well as to some specifi c features of their refl ection in a linguistic worldview of a certain area residents. The relevance of this article is determined by the author’s study of the specifi c formation of ethnonational concepts in a poetic worldview of Donbass writers in the second half of the XX century. The novelty of the article is represented by considering the “nature” concept in the context of the literary and colloquial bilingualism in the given area. Using comparative analysis, the author substantiates the choice of certain lexical units in poetic texts and explains the infl uence of ethnonational stereotypes on the writer’s personal vision. On the periphery of national symbols, this situational bilingualism (characterized by the domination of the spoken Russian language over the Ukrainian one despite its status as the offi cial state and national language) formed poetic symbols distinctive only for Donbass writers. It is concluded that the formation of the “nature” ethnonational concept in the poetic texts of Donbass writers during the second half of the XX century was signifi cantly infl uenced by the writers’ self-identifi cation not just as members of the whole nation, but also as the residents of their native region. Thus, the core of the “nature” concept is formed by the ethnonational symbols and images familiar to these poets since their childhood.



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