Brikner T. The language image of nature in the Ivan Franko’s artistic prose.

The dissertation is devoted to the research of the language image of nature and the attributive characteristics of natural objects in Ivan Franko's artistic prose. The content and features of the notion of “language image” are determined. The importance of studying this category in terms of semantics and taking into account the extra-linguistic factors and its influence on the meanings and sense is substantiated. The specificity of language representation of the image in the individual-author's picture of the world is established. Emphasis is placed on the need to study the language image of nature in artistic works in correlation with the cultural code of the nation and the writer's outlook. The concept of “semantic space of the language image” is singled out. It outlines the features of its verbalization and an artistic and semantic content. The semantic structure of lexemes for the denotion of nature objects in prose is revealed. The special attention is paid to the analysis of semantic increments in certain contextual conditions. The language image in artistic speech is actualized with the help of symbols, metaphors, metonymy. The attributive characteristics of nature, which outline the artistic poly-aspect description of the realities of the Ukrainian environment in I. Franko's prose, are analyzed. The results obtained on the explication and semantic of language images of natural objects in the writer's works illustrate the peculiarities of the author's worldview, conditioned by the synthesis of subjective, ethno-cultural and artistic aspects of verbalization of fragments of reality.