PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE IMAGE OF A EUROPEAN UKRAINIAN IN I.S. NECHUI-LEVYTSKYI’S PROSE WORKS

Liudmyla Mialkovska
Ph.D. in Philology, assistant professor in the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Philology, Lutsk National Technical University
75 Lvivska St., Lutsk 43018, Ukraine
Е-mail: l.myalkovska@lutsk-ntu.com.ua

Heading: Researches
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The article attempts to reveal the philosophy of language image of a European Ukrainian intellectual in prose works of I.S. Nechui-Levytskyi. The specific usage of the intellectuals in the studied texts are fixed and attribute phrases intelligent people, intelligent person that extend artistic and figurative speech paradigm of the analyzed language image are also reported. I. Nechui-Levytskyi shows the language portrait of the Ukrainian intellectuals using the name Europeans.

This word appears in the description of positive impressions of educated people. In the writer’s language picture of the world a word-image the intellectuals gets multidimensional content, generates structured concept. The increment of semantic structure in this concept is ensured by complex text structures with a dominant ‘Europeanness’ and by three levels of associative and semantic links of a word-concept intellectual. Attributive word combinations and metaphorical expressions with key words that define the spiritual space of the character-intellectual are the first level of associative imaginative thinking. Semantic and associative and imaginative conceptualization of the notion of the intellectuals on the second level are provides by statements the lexical semantics of which defines the physical space of the character-intellectual. Patterns that represent the socio-cultural space of the character-intellectual form the third associative semantic level. In studied works the language image of the Ukrainian intellectuals unfolds through images of populists, national people, cultural people. Also concepts of Ukrainian language, culture and education are pivotal to the language image of the Ukrainian intellectuals. It is determined that the philosophy of such a language image reveals recorded in text structures, in specific estimated statements of characters of I. S. Nechui-Levytskyi oppositions, on the one hand, of European culture with its values, ideals, and on the other hand – the darkness, the pressure of great despotic domination that oppressed Ukrainian culture, language, science, and led European Ukrainians to active cultural activities.

Keywords: history of Ukrainian literary language of the second half of XIX – the beginning of XX centuries, language of I. S. Nechui-Levytskyi’s prose works, philosophy of language image, concept, concept semantic structure.

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