The semantic model of tactile perception and its realization in the poetry of B. Pasternak

Perception is considered a universal category of human consciousnessand it is one of basic ways of reality cognition. Language units with perception semantics are regularly represented in differentparts of linguistic system. Consideration of semantic models (predicative component and its extenders), which present different perceptiontypes, is effective, as it makes it possible to focus attention on the situation of sense perception on the whole, and also to singleout its certain aspects. The specifics of the authors perception of the world, reflected in text, form an individual style of the writer. Theauthors creative individuality becomes apparent in his distinctive methods and means of linguistic implementation of some life situations.Basic semantic models often change and gain diverse shades of meaning. In the given article the means of linguistic modelling oftactile perception situation are analysed in the poetry of B. Pasternak. Tactile sense is one of most important sources of human knowledgeof space and properties of objects. It is principle for an appropriate semantic model to have an indication of subject and organs,whose help is necessary to realize the process of perception (somatism - designation of active organs of perception): hand, fingers, lips,and other body parts. Proposition can be presented by predicative and impredicative modes. The predicate manifests itself in basic verbsof tactility: трогать (to touch), касаться (to touch), осязать (to feel), and other verbs of perception, action and movement: обхва-тить (to embrace), цеплять (to catch), лить (to pour), пронзить (to pierce), гладить (to stroke), скользить (to slide). In the work ofB. Pasternak verbs целовать, обнимать (to kiss and to hug) and combinations of words ронять поцелуи (to drop kisses), покрыватьпоцелуями (to cover with kisses), обхватить руками (to embrace by hands) and other take a special place. The same verb (for example,лить  to pour) is able to designate not only tactile-perceptual processes, but also visual and aural perception, and a sense of smell.In cases of impredicative representation of a situation, adjectives холодный (cold), ледяной (ice-cold), мокрый (wet), влажный (moist),липкий (adhesive), клейкий (sticky) and others are generally used. It deserves a special attention to consider the functional load of linguisticmeans with tactile semantics: verbalization of intellectual activity, mental state of human, conditions of nature, physical activityetc. The statements, which reflect this perception type within the concrete poetic text, are able to function as text forming and meaningforming units (analysis of the poem What Hot Blood the Twilight Has, 1914). An efficient use of various stylistic means - perceptivemetaphors (synesthetic combinations of words above all), similes, personifications, antithesis and oxymoron - is evidence of significanceof tactility in the world poetic picture of B. Pasternak.

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