THE CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPT “PETERSBURG                                                                 ”IN A.BLOK’ ARTISTIC WORLDVIEW                       

Avdonina Lionora Nikolaevna, Senior lecturer, sub-department of Romanic and Germanic philology, Penza State University, ionora50@mail.ru 

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The article deals with making a model of the concept “Petersburg”, one of the major components of the Russian culture’s conceptosphere, in works of the Silver Age’s poet A. Blok. The carried out analysis shows cognitive development and stability of the research concept in the poet’s mind. In the concept’s structure the encyclopedic field with extensional descriptive range prevails, a figurative component is extensional enough and non-evaluative nature is pronounced. 

cognitive research, artistic picture of the world, semantic-cognitive method, making a model of the concept.