ACTIONALITY AS A SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTIC OF THE VLADIVOSTOK TEXT (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF M. SHCHERBAKOV’S WORKS)

Abstract

The study of local texts is in the center of attention of modern philological science, however, the textual realization of the Far Eastern loci still remains insufficiently studied. The article analyzes the linguistic representation of the semantic component “actionality” that forms the image of the city in the texts of the writer of the Far Eastern emigration Mikhail Vasilyevich Shcherbakov about Vladivostok: the stories “The Root of Life”, “Cadet Seva”, “The Last Flight” and the essay “Odyssey without Ithaca”. The concept of the semantic dominant as a key characteristic of the local text is substantiated. A definition of the Vladivostok text is put forward, which has a specific semantic and communicative-grammatical structure reflecting the characteristic features of Vladivostok. The authors describe the system of linguistic means of expressing actionality as a component of one of the semantic dominants of the Vladivostok text – the dominant of activity.