EPITHETATION OF THE CONCEPTS “LIGHT” AND “DARKNESS” IN M. TSVETAEVA’S TEXTS
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https://doi.org/10.18522/1995-0640-2025-2-61-68
The relevance of the research is determined by the active development of cognitive lingvopoetics. The paper clarifies the meaning of the term “epithetation”, draws attention to its cognitive nature, conditioned by the blending of mental spaces of the components of the epithet complex. The analysis of the epithetation of the key concepts of M. Tsvetaeva's texts - light and darkness - is carried out. As a result of the conducted research, it was found that M. Tsvetaeva's texts are distinguished by linguistic reflection, which is reflected in a stable tendency to cognitive redistribution of attributes between the concept and the object associated with it. Epithetation often has substantive verbalization. It shows that the logic of epithetation in the poet's texts is conditioned by the situational choice of the attributive-predicative feature, which has significant discrepancies with the usual word usage (light and darkness complement each other, changing evaluative meanings). The use of the cognitive-semantic method in the analysis of epithetation allows us to evaluate the mechanisms of metaphor formation from new positions.
Key words: epithetation, Marina Tsvetaeva, concept “light”, concept “darkness”, individual style, epithet complex
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