Языковые единицы с национально – культурным компонентом в повестях А.П. Чехова «Дуэль» и «Драма на охоте»

Abstract

The present thesis aimed at gaining the master’s degree is written on the topic “National-cultural semantics of linguistic units in the stories “The Duel” («Дуэль») and “A Hunting Drama” («Драма на охоте») by A.P. Chekhov. The object of the thesis is literary text as a unit of intercommunication. The subject matter is specific elements of the national-cultural content of the text and exact linguistic means of their expression (realia). As a result of the survey executed by us, we have singled out 165 (A Hunting Drama) and 134 (The Duel) examples of lexical units, the meaning of which contains a cultural component. The basis for systematisation of the singled out words-realias lies in the object principle that serves as the basis for the classification of G.D. Tomachin. We have educed the mechanism of functioning and specifics of the semantics of linguistic units (words-realias) in the stories “The Duel” and “A Hunting Drama”. The experience of surveying semantics of the words-realias let us to single out the words used by A.P. Chekhov into two major groups (household realia and cultural and religious realia). Consequently, the relation of linguistic means, in our case that would be the words-realias, with the ideological content, as well as with specific facts of the reality described in the stories is incidental to the individual style of Chekhov.