LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT OF LOVE IN RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE LITERARY DISCOURSE

Abstract

The aim of the study is to identify, based on semantic and contextual analysis of text fragments, the features of the romantic myth of love in A.I. Podolinsky’s work in comparison with the understanding of love in the modern information society. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time the concept of LOVE has been examined in A.I. Podolinsky’s poem “The Beggar”, which expands the scholarly philological knowledge about the ways this concept is represented in Russian Romanticism, using the style of little‑studied authors as an example. The analysis contributes to the linguistic study of the semantic fields of the concept LOVE that express a negative meaning. For the first time, the authors select and systematize the lexical means of expressing the concept of LOVE in the text of A.I. Podolinsky’s poem. The study has revealed lexico‑semantic groups expressing: a feeling of deep attachment in its various forms, love for the homeland, and love for the mother. It has been established that love appears in the poem as: 1) an all‑consuming “fire”; 2) tragedy and unrequitedness; 3) inseparability from retribution. The researchers have shown that love in the poem is associ- ated with the problem of the destruction of the individual and is presented as a fatal, destructive passion. The study employs a range of methods and techniques for examining the material: the continuous sampling method, semantic analysis, contextual analysis, the descriptive‑analytical method, and the survey method. Using the myth of love as a tool for analyzing social changes makes it possible to determine that romantic love among contemporary college students is contrasted with a partnership‑based type of romantic relationship, which excludes suffering as an obligatory element.