Індивідуально-авторська семантика лексеми widnokrąg в однойменному романі Веслава Мисливського

In the paper, which is a continuation of a number of studies on individual writer's semantics in idiolects, the author has analyzed the meaning of the concept widnokrąg (the horizon), which functions as a keyword in the novel “Widnokrąg” written by Polish writer W. Myśliwski. The definitions of keywords, established in the theoretical literature, are emphasized, the most important of them is spotlighted: keywords are related to the ideological and thematic content of the work/works, conceptual ideas of the author, verbalized figuratively and literally. The word widnokrąg of Myśliwski's idiolect in relation to the specified determinants has been analyzed. Taking into account the lexicographic sources, the common language structure of the meanings of the polynominals widnokrąg and виднокруг and their synonyms horyzont and горизонт in Polish and Ukrainian languages are compared. Taking into account the contextual analysis, it was found out that the word widnokrąg in the W. Myśliwski's idiolect functions in common terms: ‛place of apparent collision of the sky with land or sea' and ‛part of the earth's surface that can be seen in the open'; and is also actualized in ancient mythological meanings as ‛the place of collision of this and that world', ‛the place of transition to the after life'. In addition, the keyword compared acquires the individual authorial meaning of ‛fate'. It is produced in the text by metonymical extending of the figurative meaning ‛surroundings, environment of something or someone' established in Polish, supplemented by a metaphorical transcendental connotation. The metonymic narrowing of the meanings of ‛environment' and ‛space' determines of the phrase the center of the horizon the semantics ‛native place'. The writer, having his own vision, perception of reality denotation, makes changes in the established category in the language “distinction and reduction or elimination” of its features, encoding them in the individual sense. Therefore, the study of individual author's semantics of keywords also supports our better understanding of the author's world picture. In particular, our study highlights fragments of the narrator's world picture, which preserves the ancient ideas of mythological consciousness and ancient, but still active in Poland the rites of commemoration of ancestors.