FUNCTIONING PECULIARITIES OF THE CONCEPTS OF NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST IN JOHN CHEEVER’S WORKS

Abstract

The purpose of this article is the analysis of the verbalized concepts EAST, WEST, SOUTH, NORTH in the individual world image of a contemporary American writer John Cheever. The object of the present study are the individual image and axiological associations and also unique semantic components of the concepts EAST, WEST, SOUTH, NORTH, that are immanent to the conceptual world-image of the writer John Cheever and are refl ected in his works. The subject of the study are the lexemes that verbalize the concepts EAST, WEST, SOUTH, NORTH, and also contexts where they function. The material of the study is represented by a book of stories The Stories of John Cheever, from which a body of text fragments (138 items) of discursive usualization of all four concepts comprising the macro-concept CARDINAL POINTS OF THE GLOBE have been extracted by means of continuous sampling method. The relevance of this study is determined by the anthropocentric trend prevalent in the modern scientifi c paradigm, in other words the study of linguistic phenomena within the ternary «language-culture-knowledge». The result of the study was the establishment of the peculiarities of the perception of the cardinal points of the globe in the general American linguistic world image and the transformation these notions have undergone in the individual conceptual system of the writer John Cheever.