VISUALIZATION OF THE TEXTUAL SEMANTIC FIELD ‘FEAR’ IN FYODOR M. DOSTOEVSKY’S NOVEL “CRIME AND PUNISHMENT”

Abstract

The article considers some possibilities of using computer technologies for the visualization of semantic field ‘fear’ in the textual space of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment”. Although the theory of semantic field became widespread in the second half of the XX century, researchers still continue to be interested in some issues related to field linguistics, which include, in particular, the development of the methods for visualizing the semantic network – by creating tag clouds, semantic markup of text, synoptic schemes, rendering, etc. The study of the semantic field in the space of a specific text, primarily literary text, allows to identify the certain features of the author’s thesaurus in the structure of his linguistic identity. The original assumption is that the concept ‘fear’ occupies one of the central places in the works of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, primarily in his novels “Crime and Punishment” and “Demons”, being one of the key concepts, the verbalization of which requires thorough analysis. One of the methods of such analysis is the visualization method proposed in the article, which helps construct a graph by means of a specially developed computer program illustrating the distribution of the units of the semantic field ‘fear’ on the pages of the novel, which gives the new opportunities for interpreting the content of Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment”.