FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC POTENTIAL OF LEXICAL UNITS IN THE LANDSCAPE OF F. SOLOGUB

Abstract

The article examines the functional and semantic potential of lexemes objectifying the landscape in “Heavy Dreams”, the first novel of a symbolist writer F. Sologub. The researcher focuses on the lexical verbalization of landscape sketches in the work, exploring the breadth of latent semantic meanings within these lexemes, taking into account the connotations realized within the novel’s text to individualize nature. The lexical means of creating landscape are examined within the context of the writer’s adherent, decadent, and symbolist aesthetics, which predetermined the character and characteristics of his stylistic style. The study of the syntagmatic connections between lexemes allows for an analysis of their semantic potential, including the incremental meanings they provide within specific descriptions of nature, revealing both the typical and the individual in the author’s style. Artistic expressive devices are examined in terms of the stylistic functions they perform within the novel’s text, with particular attention paid to the role of landscape in representing the character system. The study’s conclusions substantiate the semantic and stylistic role of lexical units verbalizing landscape in F. Sologub’s novel.