The concept WHITE SILENCE in the “Northern stories” by Jack London

Svetlana Kovalevskaya,Ksenia Ibatulina,Natalia Laletina,S Cindori,N.L Shamne,O Larouk,E.Yu Malushko,L.N Rebrina

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20196900066

Abstract

The article focuses on a specific extension of the concept WHITE SILENCE in the “Northern stories” by Jack London. The concept WHITE SILENCE is one of the most interesting concepts not only in the literary works of J. London, but also in American culture. Applying the statements of the concept layers structure, we discover that the figurative layer of the concept WHITE SILENCE consists of the ten conceptual features as “territorial area”, “ice”, “cold”, “snow”, “frost”, “silence”, “mental illnesses”, “famine”, “pain”, “physical death”. It also includes three microconcepts LANDSCAPE, NOTHERN NATURE, NOTHERN LIFE CONDITIONS. The most vivid means such as epithet, metaphor, intensification and personification in the “Northern stories” are used.

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For the last few decades cognitive linguistics started to be one of the most popular areas in linguistics
We focused on selecting the cognitive features of the figurative layer of the concept WHITE SILENCE
Jack London gives a special description of the North, where we can find cognitive components of WHITE SILENCE enshrined in the dictionaries, and a special individual author's interpretation of the concept

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Introduction

For the last few decades cognitive linguistics started to be one of the most popular areas in linguistics. Various aspects of different concepts attract more and more attention of scholars. Researchers show great interest in the basic concepts of the world’s language picture. Space itself is one of these basic concepts. Concepts are often explored in the writer's literary picture of the world and will be described in this article. According to Evans, concepts are intermediaries between the words and extralinguistic reality [1]

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