LANGUAGE IMAGE HOME IN MODERN UKRAINIAN ART DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article deals with the linguistic expression of the image home in the texts of Iren Rozdobudko, Evhenia Kuznetsova, Maria Tkachivska, Svitlana Taratorina, Victoria Amelina and in Vira Ageeva’s literary work, which only beneficially emphasizes the dominant role of this image in modern Ukrainian discourse. The semantic structure of the image home develops in several vectors: shelter – fortress – family hearth, reliability – constancy – support, property – individuality – uniqueness – realization, unity – independence – potential, person – value, dignity – love – demand, will – road to yourself, trace – memory, land – your region – Motherland – place of birth, life. A separate semantic segment is created by the antonymic components groundlessness, homelessness, a destroyed house – rootedness. The image home is a complex mental formation, it encompasses contrasting concepts: home – dwelling, hut – a house, building – a spiritual value, home – a refugee camp, an adult’s house – a childhood house, one’s own house – a native home, a house-that-is – the house-that-should-be. The semantic complexity of the image home, its multi-component, branching, tendency to define not the material, but the sphere of the ideal, testifies to its deep understanding, importance in the Ukrainian language-mental continuum. The semantic structure of an image is built up by components with figurative meanings, and these secondary meanings become more important than direct ones in modern Ukrainian artistic discourse.