Concept of NORTH in Artistic Worldview of Chukotka Poet Victor Keulkut

This research aims to model the concept of the North in Victor Keulkut’s artistic worldview as part of the conceptual sphere of Arctic discourse. The authors of the article analyzed the poems of this Chukotka author. The study of artistic concepts enables the identification of the influence of cultural context on the perception of creative individuals. The relevance of this study lies in its inclusion in the paradigm of cognitive-linguistic research. The concept under investigation belongs to the category of discourse-forming concepts. The continuous sampling method was used to select 540 lexical markers, which were then distributed into nine lexical-semantic thematic groups (LSTG): ‘Industry’ (187 markers), ‘Cold’ (103), ‘Fauna’ (77), ‘Landscape’ (42), ‘Climate’ (42), ‘Sea’ (32), ‘House’ (27), ‘Tundra’ (18), and ‘Flora’ (12). The distribution of markers in LSTG was based on criteria of semantic and thematic similarity. Based on the study, a model of the artistic concept of the North in Victor Keulkut’s poetry was constructed, with the core formed by the LSTG ‘Industry’ (187 markers), the near-nuclear zone containing LSTG ‘Cold’ (103 markers), and the close periphery containing LSTG ‘Fauna’, ‘Landscape’, and ‘Climate’, while the distant periphery was represented by LSTG ‘Sea’, ‘House’, and ‘Tundra’. In analyzing the structure of the concept of the North, a specific component unique to northern linguistic culture was identified, called ‘nordicity’, expressing the idea of northern identity.

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