The art world of Ch. Aitmatov and its conceptual content.

Abstract

In the article we consider questions of the organzation of the conceptual space of the artistic text. On the material of works of Chinghiz Aitmatov the linguacognitive content of the author’s world called the art world of the writer is analyzed. This world differs by its own conceptual sphere, its system of key concepts. The theory-methodological principles of the conceptual analysis of language in general and language of a work of art, in particular are stated. The author of the article uses linguacognitive and linguacultural approaches to defining the ontology of the concept as a phenomenon of language mentality, in which our knowledge and ideas of reality are focused. On the other hand, the concept is characterized as a keyword of spiritual culture, as the information carrier about the national picture of the world. Questions of language categorization and conceptualization of reality are considered in the article from linguapoetic positions, and it gives theopportunity to characterize the art world of a particular writer. On the material of the analysis of the concept «loneliness» the historical and cultural base which caused the originality and deep philosophical and moral maintenance of the art world of Chinghiz Aitmatov is shown. The technique of the conceptual analysis presented in the article can be used at research of language of any work of art.