Conceptualization of the ethnonym Rusin in the poetry of Alexander Dukhnovich

The article deals with the conceptualisation of the ethnonym Rusin in the poetic works of the writer, ethnographer, enlightener, educator, religious and public figure Alexander Vasilyevich Dukhnovich (1803-1865), who devoted his life to the national revival and development of Rusins. The article focuses on the fact that A.V. Dukhnovych's personality, his works and significant stages of life became precedent (conceptually important) for the Rusin language and cultural community. A.V. Dukhnovich's precedent texts of different years (poems "The Life of a Rusin", "Vruchanie", "The Anthem of Subcarpathian Rusins", "The Russian March", "People's Song") are used to study the conceptual definitions of national, ethnic, historical and cultural phenomena and objects of the Rusin picture of the world as a combination of its distinctive categorical features, which are extremely important for the Rusin language and cultural community. The analysis of the poetic heritage of A.V. Dukhnovich made it possible to reveal the dominant mental constants of the conceptual field of the ethnonym Rusin at the family, everyday, historical, cultural, educational, moral, ethical, religious and self-identification levels. The author concludes that works of fiction that actualize the semantic content of the ethnonym form a national historical and cultural stereotype (symbol) among representatives of a certain language and cultural community, which in the future can become the ideological basis of society and the state.

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