THE SEMANTIC MODEL OF TACTILE PERCEPTION AND ITS REALIZATION IN THE POETRY OF B. PASTERNAK

Perception is considered a universal category of human consciousness and it is one of basic ways of reality cognition. Language units with perception semantics are regularly represented in different parts of linguistic system. Consideration of semantic models (predicative component and its extenders), which present different perception types, is effective, as it makes it possible to focus attention on the situation of sense perception on the whole, and also to single out its certain aspects. The specifics of the author's perception of the world, reflected in text, form an individual style of the writer. The author's creative individuality becomes apparent in his distinctive methods and means of linguistic implementation of some life situations. Basic semantic models often change and gain diverse shades of meaning. In the given article the means of linguistic modelling of tactile perception situation are analysed in the poetry of B. Pasternak. Tactile sense is one of most important sources of human knowledge of space and properties of objects. It is principle for an appropriate semantic model to have an indication of subject and organs, whose help is necessary to realize the process of perception (somatism - designation of active organs of perception): hand, fingers, lips, and other body parts. Proposition can be presented by predicative and impredicative modes. The predicate manifests itself in basic verbs of tactility:....... (to touch),........ (to touch),....... (to feel), and other verbs of perception, action and movement:......... (to embrace),....... (to catch),.... (to pour),........ (to pierce),....... (to stroke),......... (to slide). In the work of B. Pasternak verbs........,........ (to kiss and to hug) and combinations of words............. (to drop kisses),.................. (to cover with kisses),............... (to embrace by hands) and other take a special place. The same verb (for example,..... to pour) is able to designate not only tactile- perceptual processes, but also visual and aural perception, and a sense of smell. In cases of impredicative representation of a situation, adjectives........ (cold),....... (ice- cold),...... (wet),....... (moist),...... (adhesive),....... (sticky) and others are generally used. It deserves a special attention to consider the functional load of linguistic means with tactile semantics: verbalization of intellectual activity, mental state of human, conditions of nature, physical activity etc. The statements, which reflect this perception type within the concrete poetic text, are able to function as text forming and meaning forming units (analysis of the poem What Hot Blood the Twilight Has, 1914). An efficient use of various stylistic means - perceptive metaphors (synesthetic combinations of words above all), similes, personifications, antithesis and oxymoron - is evidence of significance of tactility in the world poetic picture of B. Pasternak.