LINGUO-CULTURAL TYPE "OFFICIAL" IN ART AND MEDIA DISCOURSE
The article analyzes the word “official” actualized in the modern linguistic picture of the world, which has gone to the periphery of the language after the October Revolution. The study gradually focuses on the presentation of the analyzed language unit in three aspects: lexicographic (analyzes the Russian-language lexicographic sources that describe the dynamic structure of the word “official” with the identification of its nuclear denotative sem), fiction (explores the features of modeling the image of the official in fiction works XIX-XX centuries (texts by N.V. Gogol, M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, A.P. Chekhov)), media (reveals the specifics of the formation of the associative profile of officials ka in Russian-language media texts of the last decade). Based on the analyzed material, the authors conclude that the basis of the formation of the connotative aspect of the semantic space of the key unit “official” in media texts is the peculiarity of its presentation in Russian classical literature, since the components of the estimated value of the unit under study coincide with the assessment of the images of officials described by the authors. The proposed study focuses on the basic characteristics of officials highlighted with reference to literary texts (appearance, financial “uncleanliness” and neglect of their duties) and explores the specifics of extrapolating these characteristics into the texts of modern Russian-language media.