PAIN CONCEPT AS REPRESENTATION OF FRUSTRATED PROCESSES OF LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY: A CASE STUDY OF SVITLANA YOVENKO'S POETIC WORKS

The article outlines expression of the conceptual of linguistic personality in poetic works by the Ukrainian author Svitlana Yovenko. The sphere of concepts of linguistic personality is formed at the stage of conceptualization and categorization where the worldview is designed by means of language and representation of sphere of concepts finds expression at the verbal and semantic level. Decoding of the latter occurs occurs through the analysis of the character’s individual lexicon. Different physical and psychological states characteristic to the image of linguistic personality are displayed in the conceptual sphere. It was revealed that the conceptual sphere of PAIN is the basis for creating a picture of the world of her work, which comprehensively presents the negative state of the linguistic personality on both the physical and psychological levels. One of its dominant psychological states rendered on verbal and semantic level is pain as a universal sign of destructive interaction between an organism and the world around. Hence, protective mechanisms represented by introjection and extrajection become universalistic ways for overcoming it. S. Yovenko’s poetry represents construal of the linguistic personality image. It is revealed that the conceptual sphere PAIN is based on categorial and lexical semes that represent the condition of linguistic personality frustration. The conceptual sphere is formed by means of detecting protective mechanisms shown clearly through confluent and projective vectors in verses by S. Yovenko. Confluent vector of linguistic personality state which is dominating by the width of semantic expression and completeness of descriptions is revealed through substantial (lexis for space, concreteness, ontic identification) and processual lexeme semantics. Projective vector finds its reflection through substantive (ontical, abstract), processual semantics focusing on actions, signs, feelings of object.