Conceptualization of Prosperity in Soviet Song Poetry of the 1930s

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the important value dominants of the Soviet linguistic picture of the world. The source of empirical material was Soviet song lyrics of the 1930s. The importance of song poetry for the linguistic reconstruction of wellbeing as a mental education and a means of ideologization is demonstrated. As a result of a comprehensive analysis of the concept of “prosperity”, the initial meanings of the concept name, a set of conceptual features, a conceptual model with nuclear and peripheral semantic components are identified and described. The main linguistic and stylistic means of representation of the concept are characterized.