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- Zonal structuring of the concept COMMUTING within artistic transport discourse: core, semi-core, and periphery
- Shirshikov V.B. Zonal structuring of the concept COMMUTING within artistic transport discourse: core, semi-core, and periphery. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2026, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 217–223. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34216/1998- 0817-2026-32-1-217-223
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2026-32-1-217-223
- УДК: 81’42
- EDN: WZPZHT
- Publish date: 2025-12-29
- Annotation: The article examines the zonal organisation of the concept COMMUTING (daily travel to work) in artistic transport discourse based on Clare Pooley’s novel Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting (2022). The aim of the study is to identify the basic structure of the concept and to determine the distribution of lexemes forming its core, semi-core, and peripheral zones. The methodological framework is the original model of the Transport Cognitive-Cultural Cluster (TCCC), focused on a three-level description of concepts with regard to their frequency, semantic, and functional-discursive characteristics. The research material comprises a thematically annotated corpus of the novel containing 1,284 sentences and 3,842 lexemes belonging to the transport semantic field. The results show that the core of the concept consists of nominations denoting key objects of the transport chronotope (train, station, seat), the semi-core includes units reflecting processes and interactions (line, platform, journey), and the periphery is formed by rare nominations with symbolic and emotional potential (bus, underground, delay). The concept COMMUTING in artistic discourse demonstrates structural symmetry and functional dynamics reflecting both real motion and the psychological states of the characters. The findings confirm the applicability of the TCCC model for describing multilayered cognitive-discursive structures in literary texts of transport-related semantics.
- Keywords: transport discourse, cognitive linguistics, COMMUTING, TCCC, corpus analysis, cognitive poetics, zonal structure, urban chronotope.
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