Nikolayeva V. The Concept "Petersburg" in Osip Mandelshtam's and Alexander Kushner's Poetic Idiolect

The object of the research is the individual style of O. Mandelshtam and A. Kushner as the artistic and linguistic sphere of the functioning of the concept "Petersburg"; the aim of the thesis is to recognize the meaning of the concept "Petersburg" that represents the specific features of Russian mentality, functional and aesthetic significance of the concept in the poetic language of O. Mandelshtam and A.Kushner; the following methods were used in the research: descriptive; comparative; of definitional and component analysis; of associative and conceptual analysis; of psycholinguistic experiment; the scientific novelty of the thesis is determined by the complex and multifold approach to studying the concept "Petersburg", that is for the first time investigated in comparative aspect on the material of the poetic works of O. Mandelshtam and A. Kushner; the results of the research: the linguistic, cultural and historical ties of the concept "Petersburg" that determine its semantics in Russian linguistic world-image were defined; the associative layer of the concept "Petersburg" in modern linguistic perception of native speakers of Russian was ascertained; the explicit and implicit linguistic means of individual author's representation of the concept "Petersburg" in the lyrics of O. Mandelshtam and A. Kushner were distinguished; the functional role of coloratives in verbalization of the information about the concept "Petersburg" in O. Mandelshtam and A. Kushner's works was determined, the peculiarities of linguistic realization of the coloratives in Petersburg texts of the poets were discovered; the area is linguistic poetics.