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THE WORD “WOMAN” IN V. P. ASTAFIEV’S DISCOURS // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 10 (151). P. 123-128

The article is devoted to a new science of language that is semantic lingvopersonology. Its object is to study the semantic level of language personality that primarily includes semantics of words and sentences. The author of the article comes to the idea that the analysis of semantics of the word is an effective tool for describing the author’s worldview. The author also analyzes the semantics of the word “woman”, shows how the value of this word is associated with the writer`s concept sphere, with high appreciation of the natural life. In V. P. Astafiev’s discours the attitude towards women is the criterion of the rating of men. The study is carried out on the material of the key works by V. P. Astafiev: “The Last Tribute”, “Czar Fish”, “The Cursed and the Slain”, “Shepherd and His Wife”, “Ode to Russian Vegetable Garden”.

Keywords: semantics, semantic lingvopersonology, language personality, author’s world view, woman, V. P. Astafiev

CREATIVE LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY AND VARIABILITY OF THE RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 4 (157). P. 112-116

There are different options of the national language picture of the world, because the national language is heterogeneous. This variability is manifested in the texts of creative linguistic identity. This thesis is confirmed by numerous linguistic and literary studies of the creative work of the outstanding Russian writer of the XX century V. P. Astafiev. The writer had a great life experience and mastered several forms of the Russian national language: standardized literary language, common parlance, territorial and social dialects. Different variants of the Russian language picture of the world are associated with this forms. V. P. Astafiev showed life of Russia in his works, he used autobiographical principle of construction of literary text. For this reason the author’s individual language picture of the world that he presented in his texts includes elements of the different variants of the Russian language picture of the world.

Keywords: semantic lingvopersonology, creative language personality, the Russian language picture of the world, variants of the Russian language picture of the world, V. P. Astafiev

Linguocultural Specificity of Vocabulary Objectifying the Situation of Olfactory Perception in Proverbs Collected by V.I. Dal // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2025. Issue 6 (242). P. 96-103

The study examines proverbs that represent the situation of olfactory perception from a linguocultural perspective. The relevance of the work is determined by the following factors: the active development of linguistic sensory studies and linguoculturology, which focus on humans and how they interpret the facts of the surrounding reality; the interest in folklore texts that allow for the reconstruction of folk representations of the world; and the possibility of integrating the research into the scientific context and expanding the understanding of the semantics of olfactory perception and its national-cultural specificity in folk sayings. The aim of the study is to investigate the literal and figurative meanings of lexical units that objectify the situation of olfactory perception in proverbs and to identify the linguocultural information they contain. The research material consists of proverbs from V.I. Dal’s collection “Proverbs of the Russian People”, which verbalize the situation of olfactory perception. The analyzed corpus of folk sayings comprises 66 units. The study employs methods such as the descriptive method, component and contextual analysis, and semantic analysis. The research demonstrates that olfactory verbs in proverbs realize both literal and figurative, culturally conditioned meanings. In folk culture, verbs such as sniff, sense, smell, stink, emit a smell are associated with unpleasant odors and are used to characterize individuals, their negative traits, social status, and various life situations. The verbs sniff, stink, smell emphasize a person’s low social status, occupation, and objectify qualities such as duplicity, cunning, and aggression. The verbs sniff and sense highlight the discrepancy between a person’s desires and their capabilities. The verbs smell and reek – serve as markers of something bad or illegal. In folk consciousness, negative things tend to leave traces and persist in memory for a long time. The verb smell verbalizes the categories of “life” and “death”, objectifying the idea that the approach of certain events (often negative) is accompanied by olfactory signs. The verb sniff denotes not only the perception of smells but also the experience of need and deprivation. This verb is associated with the manifestation of caution.

Keywords: situation of olfactory perception, linguocultural approach, verbs of smell perception, verbs of smell diffusion, verbs meaning “emit a smell”, verbs meaning “movement of smell”, literal and figurative meanings