EPITHETATION OF TIME IN M.I. TSVETAEVA’S TEXTS


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Home Editorial board Publication ethics Information Current Archive Rules for authors Contacts	DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2025.29.22.011 EPITHETATION OF TIME IN M.I. TSVETAEVA’S TEXTS Gubanov, Sergey A. Kavkaz Forum. 2025. Issue 22. Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of the epithetation of the concept «time» in M. Tsvetaeva’s texts. Time is one of the constants of human worldview, for this reason it is understood in a multifaceted and figurative way in linguistic consciousness. The hyperconcept under consideration occupies one of the central places in the M. Tsvetaeva’s creativity: the poet marks the boundary between temporary, earthly existence and eternal, which gives rise to many oppositions of life and death, everyday life and being, a man and a poet. The relevance of the research is due to the increased interest in the cognitive foundations of epithetation in language. The purpose of the study is to describe the blending nature of the epithetation of the concept of «time» in M. Tsvetaeva’s texts and to identify the main directions of metaphorization of this concept by means of attributive vocabulary. The researcher has made an attempt to show that epithetation is one of the main mechanisms for verbalizing meaning in the poet’s texts. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time an attempt was made to analyze epithetation from the standpoint of the theory of conceptual integration using the material of M. Tsvetaeva’s creativity. As a result of the research, based on the cognitive-semantic method of analysis the linguistic material, it was possible to identify the specifics of verbalization of time attributes in the poet’s idiostyle. Epithetation appears as a complex cognitivesemantic and cognitive-metaphorical process of penetration of an attribute into an adjacent (metonymic logic) or similar (metaphorical logic) mental zone. M. Tsvetaeva’s texts provide rich material for observing the cognitive mechanisms of epithetation. In the final part, the author formulated conclusions indicating that when studying M. Tsvetaeva’s idiostyle, it is productive to use cognitive methods of analysis. Theoretically and practically, this research will contribute to the development of the cognitive theory of epithetation and cognitive research of M. Tsvetaeva’s creativity. Keywords: epithet, epithetation, epithet complex, concept «time», cognitive semantics, Marina Tsvetaeva, idiostyle. Language: Russian Download the full text For citation: Gubanov, S.A. Epithetation of time in the M.I. Tsvetaeva’s texts. KAVKAZ-FORUM. 2025, iss. 22(29), pp. 30-41 (In Russian). DOI 10.46698/VNC.2025.29.22.011 + References 1. Apresyan, Yu.D. Leksicheskaya semantika: Sinonimicheskie sredstva yazyka [Lexical Semantics: Synonymic Means of Language]. Moscow, Flinta, Nauka, 1974. 366 p. 2. Arutyunova, N.D. Tipy yazykovykh znachenii: Otsenka. Sobytie. Fakt [Types of Language Meanings: Evaluation. Event. Fact]. Moscow, Nauka, 1988. 338 p. 3. 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