THE CONCEPT “TIME” IN THE AUTHOR’S LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD (BASED ON THE STORY OF I.A. BUNIN “VILLAGE”)

Abstract

The article discusses the ways of creating the author’s linguistic picture of the world in the story of I.A. Bunin “Village”. Special attention is paid to the means of lexical representation of the concept “time”, which carries an important semantic load in the writer’s linguistic picture of the world. Using the conceptual structure of the concept of linguistic picture of the world, the authors of the article focus on the peculiarities of the functioning of lexemes representing the concept “time”, which are significant for constructing an individual picture of the author’s world, reflecting the peculiarities of his attitude and bearing the imprint of a particular historical era. In the course of the analysis, the authors come to the conclusion that the author’s linguistic picture of the world is clearly structured and multilevel, which is determined, first of all, by the methods of lexical representation of the universal concepts that are part of it.