Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews eISSN: 2395-6518, Vol 7, No 6, 2019, pp 481-485 https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2019.7674 481 |www.hssr.in © Galiulina et al. PECULIARITIES OF A VERBAL REPRESENTATION OF A CONCEPTUAL LANGUAGE IMAGE “NIGHT” IN THE POETIC TEXTS OF AFANASY AFANASYEVICH FET Ilvira R. Galiulina 1* , Alexandr V. Spiridonov 2 , Iana A. Byiyk 3 1,2 Kazan Federal University, Russia, 3 Cambridge College of English, United Kingdom. Email: * galiulinailvira@mail.ru Article History: Received on 01 st October 2019, Revised on 30 th October 2019, Published on 01 st December 2019 Abstract Purpose: This study was conducted in the framework of the anthropocentric direction with elements of the cognitive approach. Based on the concept of Yuriy M. Lotman, who asserts that a literary text is a model of reality, it verbally represents real components that structure the real world and ideal components. The purpose of this article is to identify the characteristics of the representation of the linguistic image of the concept “night” in the poetry of Afanasy A. Feta as a fragment of the Russian language picture of the world. Methodology: For this purpose, the extralinguistic conditions of the formation of the discursive space of Afanasy A. Fet's poetic texts are analyzed. The theoretical literature on the picture of the world and the poetic text are studied. The peculiarities of the linguistic concept image as a complex and multidimensional education are revealed. The paper also reveals the method of continuous sampling on the material of collections of poems by Afanasy A. Fet compiled a card index of poems about the night (187 poetic texts). Result: The rating of the frequency of language units is determined: night, moon, star, dawn; the ways of representing the linguistic image-concept “night” through the prism of the author purely individual consciousness have been revealed. The peculiarities of the verbalization of the linguistic image of the concept “night” in the composition of graphic -expressive means are determined. The study made it possible to conclude the picture of the world of the poet Afanasy A. Fet is a unique version of the individual picture of the world that has enriched the “concept -sphere” of the Russian language. The individual picture of the world of the lyrics is presented in his poetic texts, the complexity of the study of which lies in the fact that they are pointed out such features as emotionality, fragmentation, phatic imagery. Applications: This research can be used for universities, teachers, and students. Novelty/Originality: In this research, the model of Peculiarities of a Verbal Representation of a Conceptual Language Image “Night” in the Poetic Texts of Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner. Keywords: Conceptual Language Image, Poetic Text, Representation, Anthropocentrism, Night, Means of Expression. INTRODUCTION It is well- known that artistic and poetic texts are objects of linguistic research, as a result of which a new direction of linguistics has emerged - cognitive poetics. The study of artistic (poetic) text within the framework of the theory of cognitive poetics also implies a clarification of the specifics of its nature. It can be stated that the artistic text is a specific concept in relation to the text. The tradition of studying an artistic text in Russian observation is represented by the works of Mikhail M. Bakhtina, Viktor V. Vinogradov, Boris A. Larin, Aleksandr M. Peshkovsky, A.A. Potebni, Vladimir Ya. Propp, Yuriy N. Tynyanov, Lev V. Scherba, Roman O. Jacobson and others. In these works, the text is considered in its relationship with the author, the reader with another text or culture. Accordingly, one can speak of a number of formed approaches to the study of a literary text. The main ones are the anthropocentric, intertextual and cultural studies approaches. The difficulty of studying, in particular, poetic texts lies in the fact that such features as emotionality, fragmentation, phatic imagery are pointed in them. In the study, it is necessary to take into account that the specificity of the poetic text is characterized by the fact that the meaning does not follow directly from the content, but reflects the specificity of artistic thinking, the main feature of which is figurativeness. Currently, one of the trends of linguistic anthropology is actively developing - anthropocentric semantics, whose objects of study are linguistic representations of semantic universals, which in their totality represent a multidimensional, hierarchical, complex in nature formation, which is called the linguistic world picture. To designate objects of anthropocentric semantics, which are fragments of the linguistic picture of the world, linguistic scholars use different terms: concept, language image, language image-concept. These terms are not synonymous. The concept of “linguistic image” is associated with the concept of “concept”. The language representation of the concept is carried out using meaningful language units. Their search and description is the task of anthropocentric semantics. If the concept - “everything that the individual knows, assumes, thinks about the realit y of the surrounding reality”, the linguistic image is the objectification by means of language (linguistic signs and their combinations) of knowledge, ideas, opinions about this reality. Consequently, when the linguistic image of an object or phenomenon of reality is analyzed, then, first of