How Manual Labor is Represented by Anton Chekhov (based on short stories "House with the Mezzanine" and "My Life")
The article is dedicated to analysis of «labor» concept represented in A.P. Chekhov’s short stories «House with the Mezzanine» and «My Life». The research objective is to represent different points of view on labor, expressed by the main characters of two stories by A.P. Chekhov. Labor is the general matter of thought and speech activity of the main characters. The authors research aspects of «labor» lexeme functioning in each short story on the example of plot-making dialogs, which better reveal life perception and point of view of the characters. Comparative analysis allows to find out ways of discovering social issues involved in the stories through researching the linguistic means used in literary texts by a certain writer. The authors of the article emphasize both the core seme of «labor» lexeme and its peripheral components. Based on this analysis, we may conclude that "labor” lexeme takes an essential place in both short stories.