Nominative chain as a means of a language artistic picture of the world representation (on the basis of Ch. T. Aytmatov’s novel "The Scaffold")
The article is devoted to the study of the potentials of the nominative chain in the representation of the linguistic artistic picture of the world. A nominative chain is understood as a set of lexical units, united on the basis of a common reference to the same object in the text. The nominations of the same object in a literary text vary depending on the author's intention to emphasize one or another characteristic of the object. Based on the analysis of variable nominations, it is possible to identify the characteristic features of the author's artistic picture of the world. The lexical representation of a fragment of the artistic picture of the world in the form of a nominative chain is an important factor in the structure of the language artistic picture of the world. Analyzing the lexical units used to denote wolves in the novel by Ch.T. Aitmatov «The Scaffold», the author shows how lexical nominations reveal the images of characters, convey their characteristic features that are relevant for expressing the ideological and artistic intention of the writer.