Keyword: «precedent phenomenon»

The article concerns with the functionality of the expression «deaf-dumbness» in the novel «Green marquee» by L. Ulitskaya and states that the intertext under analysis comes from the Bible texts, classical literature enhanced by the supplementary sense of M. Voloshin’s poetry. It is used by the author of «Green marquee» as a superpersonal precedent phenomenon of Russian literature and culture and the authors of the article define its multi-functionality and a variety of artistic expressiveness.

This article examines the specifics of the implementation of the dominant garden in the Russian artistic picture of the world. Based on the analysis of the implementation of the lexeme in the general language and individual author’s practices of usage, as well as in various texts, the conceptual, value and figurative components of its semantic structure are identified.