Cognitive Modeling of Concept RUSSIA: Fragment of Linguistic Worldview of First-Wave Emigrants

This paper presents the results of modeling and provides a comprehensive characterization of the frame structure of the concept RUSSIA. The hypothesis is put forward that the concept RUSSIA acts as a key representamen of the linguistic worldview of the firstwave emigrants (1918–1940). The study analyzes its functioning within the poetic legacy of émigré poets Olga Skopichenko, Marianna Kolosova, Maria Vizi, and Iustina Kruzenshtern-Peterets. The source base comprises 1,149 poems. The paper offers the results of a comparative analysis of the concept RUSSIA objectified in migration discourse, focusing on its invariants as elements of the individual authorial styles (idiostyles). The methodology incorporates continuous sampling of poems verbalizing the concept RUSSIA and its correlates, componential analysis, cognitive-discursive analysis, field structure analysis, and frame analysis. The study introduces into scientific discourse the data from a cognitive interpretation of metonymic and metaphorical models representing the concept via frames and subframes. It is emphasized that the frame RUSSIA IS THE SELF (RUSSIA — IS I) emerges as the absolute dominant of the concept in the émigré consciousness. The paper highlights the accentuated value component of the concept and the integration of its cognitive, linguistic, cultural, and social levels within the émigré sociolect. It is concluded that the concept RUSSIA within the émigré linguistic worldview constitutes one of the models of the broader national concept.