Dominants of the linguistic worldview in Bohdan Melnychuk’s short stories (based on the example of the analysis of the “Trial without Trial” collection)

Abstract

The article analyses the novels from the Trial without Trial collection by Bohdan Melnychuk in order to identify the features of the artistic realisation of the dominants of the linguistic worldview. As a result of research carried out using descriptive, comparative-typological methods, component, semantic, conceptual and contextual analysis, it was found that the linguistic worldview in Melnychuk’s novels appears as a result of perception and understanding of the world and man in it, realised by the speech of the protagonists. It is characterised by a complex intertwining of table expressions, metaphors, metaphorised images that acquire the meaning of symbols, and of semantically related concepts and concepts that are marked by psychological complexity and are designed to reflect the inner states of man, their behaviour, which indicates the anthropocentrism of the linguistic worldview in the novels of the writer.