Skrypnyk A. French poetic Discourse of the Middle Ages.

A new integrated cognitive and semantic approach to the analysis of the medieval French poetry is proposed in this work. The research is concentrated on the study of the frame-modeling of the mean concepts in Francois Villon's poetry with the description of the semantic structure of the words as components of the frames. We investigate also the construction of a model of the concept of DEATH (which turned out to be dominant in Villon's poetry) in the context of the whole period of the French Middle Ages. It is pointed out that in Villon's works the SUFFERING frame is integral and semantically dominant is the frame of DEATH. The structuration of the DEATH concept in the works oh French poets in XII-XIV is performed. It has determinated such sub-concepts of the medieval concept MORT as "Biblical death", "Tamed death", "My death". The analysis of the structure of the syntactic units with the word "mort"asserted that the DEATH concept is developing in the French poetry of ХІІ-ХІІІ centuries in form of themetaphorical models: DEATH is a PUNISHMENT; DEATH is a FATE; DEATH is an AGGRESSOR; DEATH is a LIBERATOR; DEATH is CYNICAL. In correspondence with these models the authors use the vocabulary that denotes the sentence of the person to death for his sins, the inevitability of the death, its aggression, the death as a liberator of the earthly misfortunes and the horror of the death. Il is proved that the subjectivism of the emotional experience of the death in Francois Villon's poetry develops in a higher stage in comparison with notion of this concept in the poetic works of his precursors. It testifies the arising in his poetry of new Renaissance motives. Key words: poetic discourse, frame, conceptual metaphor model, system semes, usual semes, personal semes, occasional semes, concept, sub-concept, gestalt, sub-gestalt, invariant position, architype