Functionality of the dynamics of the concepts’ content of STILLNESS, SILENCE, and PRATE in a literary text (based on the novel “Abode” by Zakhar Prilepin)

The work is created at the intersection of two sciences – literary studies and cognitive linguistics. We pose the urgent problem of artistic meaning of dynamism of the concepts' content of STILLNESS, SILENCE, and PRATE in Zakhar Prilepin’s novel “Abode”. We substantiate the conclusion that historical and author’s interpretations of the named concepts are used to express the author’s consciousness that the semantic content of the studied concepts STILLNESS, SILENCE, and PRATE serves in Zakhar Prilepin’s novel as an artistic and aesthetic justification of the spiritual crisis causes in Russian society at the beginning of the 20th century. The writer, demonstrating the crowding out of the original Gospel concept content of STILLNESS (achieving holiness), as well as the emergence of additional interpretations of it, which are formed in the text of Prilepin's work based on peripheral meanings in the author's interpretation of the concepts of SILENCE (limitation of mind) and PRATE (ideological propaganda), confirms the main idea of the novel “Abode”, which speaks of the destructiveness for Russia of the rejection of the Orthodox ideal in the post-revolutionary period.