Analysis of thematic groups of words as a tool for revealing an artistic image

Abstract

The relevance of this study is determined by the need to identify the subtextual possibilities of thematic vocabulary, which in a work of art is a marker of the characters’ characters. The research is carried out on the basis of the text of the story by Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky “Everything secret becomes clear.” The research hypothesis is that the analysis of thematic groups of words can be used as a means of explicating the features of an artistic image, since it is thematic vocabulary that remains stable “regardless of other, objective and subjective, factors of text formation” (Bolotnova, 2009). The article gives a definition of thematic vocabulary, analyzes its features that characterize the emotional state of the characters, and explicates its subtextual potential. The scientific novelty of this study lies in the fact that for the first time the story of V.Yu. Dragunsky was analyzed using the tools of philological text analysis, the contextual opposition of two words of the thematic groups “Adults” and “Child” was identified and described. It has been established that thematic vocabulary accumulates elements of psychology, which have an implicit presence in a literary text. The methods used to interpret the text made it possible to explicate and describe the contextual opposition of the words of two thematic groups “Adults” and “Child”. It has been determined that thematic vocabulary may contain psychological elements. We see the prospects for research in continuing to identify the role of thematic vocabulary in a work of art.