Мовний образ Києва в текстах І. С. Нечуя-Левицького
Authors: Мялковська Людмила 
Published: December 2019

The article attempts to outline the linguistic image of Kyiv in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries in the artistic texts of I. S. Nechui-Levytskyi. Analyzing a particular word Kyiv, as well as the attributive phrase St. Kyiv, the old great Kyiv, the old city in the texts under the analysis, we revealed the expansion of the artistic-figurative paradigm of the linguistic image.

In the created linguistic portrait of the city, the lexical-associative connections used for the conceptualization of the general concept of "beauty" in the expression Kyiv-beauty city is semantically significant. The writer uses this expression when it is necessary to convey the positive impressions of the description of the urban space. Fascinated by the beauty of the evening Kyiv landscape, I. S.  Nechui-Levytskyi writes about «a huge round rotunda temple», «a temple rich in paints and colors of nature», «a world gallery of paintings by a weird artists», «a gallery of paintings and views». These individual poetic associations fill the writer's artistic prose style with hues of celebration and exaltation.

The structure of the linguistic image of city plays a significant role in the landscape. Expanded landscapes described by I. S. Nechuy-Levytsky, as a rule, intensify the trivial syntactic connection, which combines the names of urban realities such as monasteries, churches, baths, crosses, monuments and names of spatial notions of alley and mountains into a holistic contemplative picture.

In the studied works, the specific verbal images that have rich factual content, are the key and conceptual issues for the creation of the language image of Kyiv. These are architectural and sacral buildings: the monument to Prince Volodymyr, the St. Andrew's Cathedral, the Lavra, the Sofia, the Desyatinna and others.

It has been found out that in the descriptions of Kyiv there are often comparisons with golden bouquets, as well as epithetic phrases used with a bunch of golden flowers (about church baths), golden bouquets of the baths and crosses. The writer sees the entire space around through the prism of unearthly beauty, imposes the net of something fantastic and unreal on the picture of nature.

 

Key words: linguistic identity of I.S. Nechuyi-Levytskyi, creative heritage of the writer, linguistic image, landscape, history of the Ukrainian literary language.

 

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