FRAME ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT DEATH

Abstract. The article is devoted to the frame analysis of the concept DEATH in the Russian language. The aim of the study is to examine the multi-layered structure of the concept DEATH through frame analysis, which facilitates the representation of stereotyped situations associated with death within the Russian linguistic world picture. The methodological framework draws on the frame semantics theory and the theory of concepts. The research material consists of lexical units extracted from explanatory and phraseological dictionaries of the Russian language, as well as examples drawn from the Russian National Corpus. As a result of the analysis, six slots of the frame structure of the concept DEATH were identified: Death, Funeral, Burial, Orthodoxy, Folk beliefs - superstition, and War - collective memory. It was established that within the Russian linguistic world picture the concept DEATH is conceptualized across three interacting axiological dimensions: the religious-Orthodox (death as transition), the historical (death in the war as sacrifice and memory meaning), and the mythological (death as a force requiring ritual neutralization). The originality of the study lies in the application of an integrated frame-semantic methodology to the Russian conceptualization of DEATH, which reveals the multilayered interaction of Orthodox, folk-mythological, and historical-memorial meanings within a single cognitive structure. The practical significance of the findings extends to lexicography, cognitive linguistics, linguoculturology, and the teaching of Russian as a foreign language. The results may further serve as a basis for cross-cultural and cross-linguistic studies of the concept DEATH in other linguistic world pictures.

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