IMAGES OF THE CITY AND THE VILLIAGE AS FRAGMENTS OF THE LINGUAL DESCRIPTION OF CHORNOBYL SPACE

Images of cities and villages for which the consequences Chornobyl explosion became most tangible are outlined in Ukrainian artistic discourse with documentary authenticity. These descriptions exacerbate emotionality, tone tragedy, sometimes apocalyptic coloration. The general nominations city, village, as well names specific settlements that have suffered from Chоrnobyl accident, consistently combined negative epithets deserted, sparsely populated, empty, abandoned, dead, neglected, orphaned. Verbalizing semantics ‘lack life’, ‘fading ‘desolation’, they depict assess state towns after particular connection situation mass evacuation residents. expressiveness description is intensified by definitions overall picture desolation visually complemented images looted homes, wild pets, overgrown fields gardens. verbal image a radiation-infected town / village especially relevant texts fiction non-fiction. authors quite motivatedly characterize post-accident help infected, doomed, unpromising. associative-semantic deepening motif “abandoned, dead exclusion zone” provided negative-evaluation seed ‘silence’. In linguistic portraitl uninhabited villages, modal words no, pronouns adverbs (nobody, nowhere) verb constructions particles no preposition without perform an important text-forming function. Indicative aspect – space above sky. This objectively motivated reflection fact cloud radioactive contamination formed result rose up, covering Pripyat. tension “ground” atmosphere Pripyat Chernobyl described verbs compounds seeds ‘intensive traffic’, metaphorize intensity traffic to take off, snatch, race, fly, tear jerk, jump. Together, create cinematic characteristic chronicle-documentary prose. facilitated ‘to move quickly’, stop suddenly’, start moving suddenly’.