The problem of loneliness in the modern society through the lens of the author’s worldview

Abstract

Studying the problem of loneliness through the lens of the author’s consciousness enables us to understand the principles of the relationships between people in the modern world and what should be a priority in it and also allows to determine the ways of promoting moral values ​​through the author’s word picture and artistic images. The ambiguity of approaches to the methods of linguistic and speech representation of artistic concepts has determined the purpose of this work as modeling the concept “Loneliness”, the features of which in A. Gavalda’s novel “Hunting and Gathering” (“Ensemble, c’est tout”) reflect the peculiarities of the author’s idiostyle and her attitude to the social phenomenon under study. The semantic-cognitive and contextual analysis reveal the main features of the concept that are characteristic of A. Gavalda’s cognitive consciousness as a representative of the contemporary French society. The study reveals the specificity of the figurative component of the concept, characterized by a high degree of abstractness, analyzes the peculiarities of the structural space of the investigated conceptual sphere, and provides an evaluative characteristic of loneliness. The authors of this paper note that the studied concept acquires an individual perspective primarily at the level of its contextual representation. An analysis of the artistic images created by the writer makes it possible to determine the original means that she uses to express her position.