Representation of the concept of the Far East in the novel by R. I. Fraerman "Wild Dog Dingo, or The Story of first Love"

This article is devoted to the reconstruction of a fragment of the cognitive level of the linguistic personality of R. I. Fraerman, a Soviet writer, namely, the reconstruction of the concept of the Far East based on the material of the work "Wild Dog Dingo, or The Story of First Love". The subject of the study is the linguistic representation of a concept that is significant for the entire linguistic picture of the world by R. I. Fraerman. In modern linguistics, a number of definitions of the concept and approaches to its study, description and analysis coexist. In this article, the concept is understood as a mental representation of a person's knowledge of reality, carrying cultural information and finding its expression in various sign systems. This definition of the concept belongs to researchers in the field of conceptology O. A. Alexandrov and O. A. Andreeva. The study is based on the methods and techniques of semantic and cognitive description of the concepts of Z. D. Popova and I. A. Sternin. In addition to the methods and techniques of semantic and cognitive description of concepts, the study uses a descriptive method, including methods of observation, comparison, classification, the method of component analysis and individual techniques of statistical analysis. The scientific novelty of the research is determined primarily by the choice as its subject of the description of the concept that makes up the individual linguistic picture of the world of R. I. Fraerman, whose work, including the linguistic aspect, is currently completely unexplored. The following conclusions were obtained during the study: 1) the concept of the Far East as an integral element of the entire linguistic picture of the writer's world is evaluative; 2) most of the nominations representing the concept name certain natural phenomena of the region (its flora, fauna, relief, climate) and features, phenomena of the life of the indigenous people (Nanai); 3) vocabulary included in the nominative the field is quite detailed and specific, which is due to the writer's personal acquaintance with the specified region (the Far East).