Semantic field 'corporeality' in Andrey Platonov's novel Happy Moscow ("Schastlivaya Moskva")

Reconstruction of the semantic field is one of the most effective ways to describe the structure and content of lexical and conceptual systems of the organization of the artistic text. Andrei Platonov's novel Happy Moscow is anthropocentric as well as his other works. In this novel, the author focuses on the problems of human and his body as a complex object that has complex relationships with human himself as well as with the surrounding reality. The phenomenon of corporeality, described in Platonov's novel, is reflected at all levels of the text. This phenomenon, which is simultaneously a cognitive category, and a text-forming concept, becomes the object of analysis in this article, in which corporeality is considered as a semantic field, consisting of the core, center and periphery. The article reconstructs the semantic field 'corporeality', implemented in Andrey Platonov's novel "Happy Moscow": its core, center, periphery, provides information about the frequency of keywords, offers methods of complications of the structure of the semantic field. Issues of verbalization of cognitive category of corporeality in the text are discussed, the role of the words with corporeal semantics for the conceptual picture of the world is analyzed. The polysemantic unit body and its contextual synonyms (little body, corpse, body, torso) serve as the core of the semantic field 'corporeality'. The center of semantic field includes multiple layers of somatic vocabulary (names of body parts, organs, physiological secretions, disease states, etc.). It should be noted that all types of somatisms are presented in the text (but unevenly, for example, lexeme heart appears 92 times in the text, head - 56, eyes - 44 times, but fingers and skin - 8 times each). The periphery contains age-sex characteristics (man, woman, man, child, etc.). Mapping the frequency of keywords at the same time shows the following results - lexeme human in the text occurs 138 times, and man - a total of 6 times. With allowance for features of the conceptual sphere of the novel, the periphery will also include lexemes matter, energy, material ("material existence"), state (life and death), various kinds of corporal modification, body position in space and verbs signifying motion, gestures and facial expressions, body-oriented actions (actions aimed at the body itself or committed by the body in relation to other objects). In accordance with current knowledge of the embodied mind and the experience of learning mind-body problem, the periphery of the semantic core will also be cognitive processes (thinking, perception, memory, etc.) the complexly structured semantic field of corporeality is one of the concepts forming the text of the novel Happy Moscow, and the result of its analysis demonstrate that Andrey Platonov concentrates on the solution of the problem of the body, its existence in the surrounding reality and ways of self-realization and implementation of contacts with the outer world.

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