Keyword: «song text»

The author’s individual comprehension of the concept of <сity> in the modern Russian linguoculture is considered in the article on the material of song texts of the XX-XXI centuries. It is established, these semantic increments are emotionally-evaluated with the assessments of a city are varying from maximally positive to sharply negative. The main directions of the city comprehension are highlighted through the analysis: an ideal city, native, real, a foreign one. In the latter case, we have observed an evaluative contrast between a city and a village. Typical images of the city are gathered around its characteristics of streets, houses, parks, cathedrals and bridges.