Convergent-conceptual algorithm for the research of the artistic concept “Siberia” in the text of Georgy Grebenshchikov: An experience of a system-level model

The article discusses the problem of studying the artistic concept as a semantic unit of a literary text. A system-level model has been developed, according to which an artistic concept is considered as a context-dependent and dynamic representation of a significant fragment of the world, expressed by a complex of artistic conceptual features, metaphors and blends (hereinafter referred to as ACFs, ACMs and ACBs, respectively). The boundaries between conceptual levels are not impenetrable, since levels and their components are not strictly isolated, but interact with each other. Moreover, within the basic level of the artistic concept, the attributive differentiation of ACFs into universal, national cultural and a is proposed. The quantitative specificity of the organization of levels is determined by the structural hierarchy of the proposed model of the artistic concept: the number of ACF s forming the first, basic, level significantly exceeds the number of ACMs - the second level. ACMs, in turn, are represented in greater numbers than ACBs that form the third level. This hierarchical feature of the model is based on the understanding of the heterogeneous conceptual depth and creative elaboration of a particular artistic concept. The presence of allegorical authorial meanings in the structure of the concept testifies to its cognitive significance in the picture of the writer’s world. To research the system-level model of the artistic concept, a convergent-conceptual algorithm is proposed, based on the use of cognitive linguistics tools to adequately extract implicit conceptual meanings embedded in the literary text. This algorithm, in accordance with the three distinguished levels of the artistic concept, integrates three specific research methods (the method of attributive differentiation of conceptual features, the method of reconstruction of conceptual metaphors, the method of deconstruction of conceptual blends). An in-depth, spectral coverage of the three levels of the concept makes it possible to ensure the consistency, completeness and reliability of the linguo-conceptual analysis. Verification of the proposed theoretical positions is carried out on the artistic concept “Siberia,” represented in the text of the writer Georgy Grebenshchikov. The study has shown specific positive results: the proposed three-level model is structurally and logically superimposed on the content components of the analyzed concept. The revealed conceptual explications confirm the quantitative and hierarchical specifics of the organization of levels, based on the understanding of the structural vertical of the artistic concept. The advantage of the convergent-conceptual research algorithm lies in the possibility of a spectral coverage of conceptual levels in the “ascending” research logic, which makes it possible to present the integral structure of the artistic concept and ensure consistency, completeness, and reliability of the linguo-conceptual analysis. The author declares no conflicts of interests.

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