Anna V. Kuryanovich

Doctor of Science (Philology), Associate Professor, Head of the Chair of Language Theory and Methods of Teaching the Russian Language

Tomsk State Pedagogical University

(Tomsk, Russia)

Elena Yu. Zhukova

Postgraduate Student of the Chair of Language Theory and Methods of Teaching the Russian Language

Tomsk State Pedagogical University

(Tomsk, Russia)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22405/2712-8407-2025-2-176-195

Abstract. Linguo-axiological analysis of textual material is increasingly in demand today, serving as a methodological basis for the humanities. Satire, as a means of presenting the comic, and the satirical text, as its genre embodiment, offer rich material for studying the value orientations of the individual, a significant part of contemporary cognitive-discursive research in Russian studies. The focus of scholars on the axiological fragment of the linguistic worldview of native Russian speakers indicates the relevance of the problematic associated with the analysis of linguistic textual means of objectifying value meanings within the creative discourses of outstanding masters of the word. The article aims to systematize representations of axially significant concepts that constitute the worldview of the satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky, based on an analysis of the author's representations of the realities of life, the essential characteristics of personality, and laughter and humor as important manifestations of the specifics of national and individual consciousness. The list of value dominants in the author's worldview includes meanings that constitute the content of the concepts EMPATHY, SENSITIVITY, TALENT, INDEPENDENCE, and FREEDOM. Concepts characteristic of the writer's worldview such as DISTRUST, INDIFFERENCE, POWER, BOORISHNESS, RUDENESS, and DEPENDENCE develop a negative connotation within the conceptual structure of M. Zhvanetsky's works, allowing them to be classified as anti-values. The meaning of concepts conveying the value of some and the anti-value of other meanings structuring Zhvanetsky's worldview is uniquely filled in his creative discourse, conveying the uniqueness of the author's worldview and life position. The concepts of HUMOR and LAUGHTER serve as a connecting link between the "value" and "anti-value" fragments in the satirist's worldview. This is largely facilitated by the rich functional potential of their lexical means of representation. Correlated with the writer's representation of life, creativity, and talent, these units actualize the most important individually authored conceptual meaning – "a person must be free," which is reflected in the linguistic fabric of his satirical miniatures.
Keywords: author's linguistic worldview, satirical text, conceptual structure of the text, linguoaxiological analysis, concept connotation, value connotation, M. M. Zhvanetsky.

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For citation: Kuryanovich, AV & Zhukova, EYu 2025, ‘"Value" and "Anti-Value" in Mikhail Zhvanetsky's Worldview: a Linguo-Axiological Description of the Conceptual Structure of Satirical Texts’, Tula Scientific Bulletin. History. Linguistics, issue 2 (22), pp. 176–195, https://doi.org/10.22405/2712-8407-2025-2-176-195 (in Russ.)

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