Interaction of the natural and the civilizational in the language of the Ukrainian fantastic prose (on the material of the works by O. Kostiuk, V. Maslov, and Y. Pryhornytsky)

The article discusses urgent issue of contemporary linguistics: correlation and coordination of different world view strategies in the language of literary text, in this case ? Ukrainian fantastic of the 1980th. It is noteworthy that main problems these texts are concerned with have importance beyond the range of the linguistics itself and overlap the problems of neighboring humanitarian spheres ? psychology, literary studies, ethnology. All the three authors works of which are studied in the article try to handle the same problem: how natural component of the human being (emotions, intimate communication with natural environment) can be correlated with psychological challenges of modern technology. Language devices that are maintained in their works have similar typology. Thus, emotional, spiritual sphere is represented by such lexemes as ‘cloud’, ‘sky’, ‘summer’ etc. and serves to provide human being with deep connection to her/his primordial nature. At contrary, words of technological sphere (‘lift’, ‘container’ and such neologisms as ‘inolyudu’ ? literally ‘other-humans’) represent aggressive or uncomfortable situations. The authors use words of these two spheres in the same contexts and thus try to find linguistic mean for reconciliating them.