EPITETATION OF THE ATTRIBUTES LIGHT / HEAVY IN M. TSVETAEVA’S POETRY

Abstract

The article describes the main directions of epithetation with the attributes light/heavy in M. Tsvetaeva's poetry. The collected works of M. Tsvetaeva and the Dictionary of Poetic Language by Marina Tsvetaeva served as the material for the research; data from the Dictionary of the Russian language and The Russian National Corpus were used to characterize the combinative properties and common usage of the adjectives under consideration. Continuous sampling was used to select epithet complexes that were further processed using stylistic, cognitive and statistical analysis. It is noted that the specificity of the parametric attribute is manifested in its anthropocentricity: normality is associated with a comfortable state of the human body. In the research epithetation is considered as a subjective process of attribution is also based on this principle, which makes attribution and epithetation cognitively unified mechanisms for understanding the essence of an object. It can be seen that heaviness in the Russian linguistic consciousness is associated with the physical inability to move an object, which leads to a feeling of discomfort and causes negative connotations. Lightness is more susceptible to metaphorization and positive evaluation, which is also physically and psychologically motivated. In the Russian linguistic consciousness, heaviness is associated with the physical inability of an object to move, leading to a feeling of discomfort and evoking negative connotations. Lightness, on the other hand, is more susceptible to metaphorization and positive evaluation, which is also physically and psychologically motivated. It is proved that in M. Tsvetaeva's idiolect, two tendencies in the epithetation of these attributes are observed. The first is their extension to humans and their organs, which is expressed in the actualization of the meaning of mental heaviness or lightness; the second is a verbalization of the poet's maximalism, manifested in the frequency of comparative forms heavier and lighter in the superlative sense. It is concluded that the parametric weight attribute is metaphorized and transferred to an associatively close anthropomorphic mental area: both adjectives, despite the high frequency of the lexeme light, develop figurative meanings