The epithet complex in the prose of Marina Tsvetaeva: linguistic mechanisms of formation
- DOI
- 10.5922/vestnikpsy-2025-1-5
- Pages
- 56—65
Abstract
The article examines the features of verbalizing the category of quality in Marina Tsvetaeva’s prose texts through the lens of the vectors of figurative semantics formation by means of epithet complexes. The purpose of the study is to identify the mechanisms of representing qualitative, attributive semantics in Marina Tsvetaeva’s idiolect. To achieve this goal, the following methods were employed: descriptive, component analysis, and cognitive-semantic analysis of linguistic units. Epithet complexes of metaphorical, metonymic, and metaphonymic types were analyzed, allowing the identification of the author’s logic in forming linguistic units with attributive semantics. The research material included Marina Tsvetaeva’s prose texts, which are among the least studied and contain the author’s comments on the writing process. The study established that the mechanism of forming epithet complexes in Tsvetaeva’s prose is metaphonymy, with metaphonymic epithet complexes representing hybrid epithet structures that reflect a complex logic of attributive meaning formation. It is shown that the concept of quality serves as a central poetic dominant in the poet’s idiolect, verbalized through non-systemic epithet structures in the language, the modeling of which is one of the tasks of her poetic universe; the epithet is understood not as a device but as the precise word. The analysis revealed the types of metaphonymic epithet complexes in Marina Tsvetaeva’s prose.