Figurative projections of the memory of the Chornobyl disaster in the Ukrainian literature discourse

Iryna HOTSYNETS,

PhD (Philology), Associate professor, of the department of German and French languages and their teaching methodology, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University;
24 Ivan Franko st, Drohobych, 82100, Ukraine;
E-mail: hotsynets@ukr.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8201-2712

Heading: STYLE AND MEMORY
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract

The article highlights the types of textual-figurative projections of the memory of the man-made disaster at the Chornobyl AES in the language of Ukrainian poetry and literary-journalistic prose, which recorded moral conditions and the social-ecological situation in various verbal formats.
The lexical content of these works is a dictionary of the national socio-historical and emotional memory of the tragedy of the Ukrainian people.
The core components of the lexical-semantic field «memory» include the nominations memories, remembrance, mention, predicative constructions will not forget, not to forget, moral imperative must not be forgotten.
It has been established that the first evaluative association that accompanies the national-historical and literary memory of the Chornobyl disaster recorded in the texts is a tragedy. As a component of the post-Chоrnobyl linguistic picture of the world, this nomination is characterized by semantic ambiguity and multiple interpretations. Its most frequent expressive and evaluative specifiers (trouble, calamity, grief, drama, misfortune, pain) are consistently actualized in compounds with the adjective Chоrnobyl and genitive metaphors with the proper name Chоrnobyl (the trouble of Chоrnobyl, the tragedy of Chоrnobyl).
In the thematic area «memory of the Chоrnobyl tragedy», we distinguish such dominant segments as «responsibility», «gratitude», «heroism», «boldness», «bravery», «courage», «deed», «memory of the dead».
An important component of the lexical-semantic field «memory» in post-Chоrnobyl literature is the image lessons of Chоrnobyl. Due to the presence of the meaningful words «conclusions» and «responsibility», it becomes an occasional synonym of the tragic collective national experience.
Various genres of literary and literary-journalistic texts on the subject of Chоrnobyl testify to the stable two-vector associative-semantic connections of the lexeme memory with concepts, on the one hand, history, past, ancestors, and on the other hand, the future, future generations, descendants.
Verbalization of the memory of the Chоrnobyl events is characterized by the use of time circumstances such as forever, always, for life, etc.
The language of Ukrainian post-Chоrnobyl poetry and literary-journalistic prose (in particular, the documentary novels of A. Mykhaylenko, L. Dayen, Yu. Shcherbak, V. Yavorivskyi, I. Malyshevskyi, V. Tregubov) about Chornobyl demonstrably reflects the peculiarities of the textual linguistic-figurative projecting of the memory of the man-made disaster at the Chornobyl AES and testifies dense lexical content of the lexical-semantic field «memory».

Key words: Chornobyl discourse, artistic memory, figurative projection, lexical-semantic field, nomination, figurative-associative connection.

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