Petrova, Z. Yu., Fateeva, N. A. FIGURATIVE POTENTIAL OF THE WORD LANGUAGE IN RUSSIAN POETRY: CONSTRUCTIONS OF PERSONIFICATION. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2023;45(6):108–114. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2023.947


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FIGURATIVE POTENTIAL OF THE WORD LANGUAGE IN RUSSIAN POETRY: CONSTRUCTIONS OF PERSONIFICATION

Petrova
Z. Yu. 		V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Fateeva
N. A. 		V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
metaphor
personification
language
dialect
Russian poetry
evolution		 Summary: The main purpose of the work is to explore the metaphorical uses of the word language in poetic contexts in which personification is observed; determine the circle of words – objects of comparison combined with this metaphor, identify the comparative frequency characteristics of these words, trace the chronology of their appearance in the Russian poetic language, analyze the renewal of the traditional metaphor language by poets with the help of other words associated with it by close semantic ties (dialect, jargon, names of different languages, etc.). The material of the study is a selection of contexts with the meaning of personification with the word language and words associated with it by synonymy and hypero-hyponymy relations from the Poetic Subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus. When analyzing the linguistic material, the corpus method, the semantic field method, and the structural-functional method were used. As a result of the study, semantic classes of objects of comparison characterized by the considered personifier were identified – “The inner world of a person”, “Nature: plants, water, wind, animals, etc.”, “Objects created by man”, the time frames and comparative frequency of their use. Conclusions are drawn about the variation of the traditional metaphor language both at the lexico-semantic and at the formal levels. The results of the study represent one of the fragments of the metaphorical system of the Russian poetic language of the 19th–21st centuries in its development.



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