COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF THE “MENTAL SPHERE” SEMANTIC MACROFIELD IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND IN THE POETRY BY IGOR-SEVERYANIN

Abstract

. The article is dedicated to defining boundaries of the semantic field, which unites the mental sphere lexemes. Divergences in linguistic approaches to the composition of the mental sphere vocabulary in the Russian language make it difficult to distinguish an archiseme. In addition, the convergence of the mentality semantics with other semes, among which, first of all, should be named feeling, character and speech, accounts for the branched periphery of this lexical-semantic macrofield. The study examines the structure and composition of the mental sphere lexical-semantic field. The analysis is based upon usual meanings of words with the mentality seme, as well as on the implementation of the mentality semantics in fictional speech. Texts by Igor-Severyanin, in whose poetry lexemes with mental semantics dominate both in terms of frequency and of significance, represent the main research material.