THE METAPHOR OF COLOUR AS THE AGENT OF OBJECTIFYING THE DEVILRY CONCEPT IN F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’S “CRIME AND PUNISHMENT”

THE METAPHOR OF COLOUR AS THE AGENT OF OBJECTIFYING THE DEVILRY CONCEPT IN F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’S “CRIME AND PUNISHMENT”

Author:  N.A. Azarenko

Affiliation:  Lipetsk State Pedagogical University

Abstract: 
The article is dedicated to contemporary cognitive linguistics question of the day. What is meant here is the way the author’s metaphor is realized in a literary text. The metaphor is the thing we define as the basic means of exploring the author’s idiolect, as his texts lie within the limits of religious sphere of concepts most of which are abstract entities, hard to interprete.
We have embarked on the analysis of Dostoevsky’s world view via the investigation of the specifics expressed in representing one conceptual field (turned to Christianity) in terms of another, be it everyday life or empirical field.
The terms of metaphor and metaphorization the article is dealing with are used in a brand new meaning we could call expanding. The reason is we have maximally expanded and in a certain way transformed the view on the metaphor in relation to its normal use and started using the term to cover a wide range of things to detect analogous possibilities of human reasoning.
The originality of the approach to literary text in common and to metaphor in particular has predefined the unusual method of research, too. The method of recording the author’s intentions and reader’s perception is close to receptive aesthetics and is taken here as the leading one. Association experiment, used widely in sociology and psycholinguistics, was put forth, too.
The research done has driven us to the following conclusion. In the structure of lexical meaning, Dostoevsky’s “colour”-seme lexical items verbalize religious concepts, mostly - the infernal concept, consequently and indirectly, but truly metaphorically, as if hiding the very purpose, the deeply religious sense pervading the whole tissue of the Christian writer’s works, under the description of everyday life.

Keywords:  cognitive metaphor, metaphorization, idiolect, colour, devilry

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