SEMANTIC VOLUME OF MONASTERY CONCEPT IN THE POEM A YEAR IN A MONASTERY BY A.N. APUKHTIN

The given article deals with the issue of investigation of concept semantics in literary speech. The article purpose is the identification of semantic filling of monastery concept in the character's linguistic view of the world based on the material of the poem A Year in a Monastery by A.N. Apukhtin (1866). The relevance of research work is determined by studying of concept as a component of the Russian linguistic world view and by research of lexicalsemantic system of the writer's language by means of field technique. The research object is the monastery concept in literary discourse. The means of concept semantics explication in the character's speech in the poem by A.N. Apukhtin act as a research subject. In this work the complex research technique is applied which promotes investigation of language representation of concept based on combination of various methods and ways of the analysis: conceptual analysis method, field method, method of the component analysis of the literary text, oppositional method, continuous sampling method. The development of model of the associative and semantic field explicating the semantic volume of monastery concept in a fragment of the writer's linguistic world view became the research result. The semantic volume of this concept and ways of its organization in speech of the certain character is determined. The connections of semantic filling of monastery concept with specifics of language consciousness, features of the character's world outlook are considered. The associative-semantic connections between monastery concept and other concepts of the Russian orthodox culture are revealed. The specific conclusions on features of A.N. Apukhtin's poetics – conceptualization of separate language units' meanings – are drawn.