VOCABULARY OF THE TOPIC CRIME AND TRIAL IN LEO TOLSTOY’S NOVEL “RESURRECTION”: A PREVIEW OF THE WORK ON THE DICTIONARY OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE NOVEL

Such a signifi cant work of L. N. Tolstoy as the novel “Resurrection” has not yet found its lexicographer. The linguopoetic study of the “Resurrection” can also serve as material for working on the author’s dictionary of the work, because the patterns and trends of the writer’s use of certain words in connection with the description of the judicial process, the investigation of crimes and similar phenomena are revealed. Thus, fi rstly, the semantic transformations of devastated traditional concepts in connection with the words power, session, prison, hard labor are considered; secondly, the formation of the new author’s word is also studied through similes and metaphors (see, in particular, the bestiary); and thirdly, an analysis of onomastics is carried out (Lyubov, Katyusha, Maslova, Nekhlyudov). From this point of view, the linguistic layer denoting the fall, punishmentand salvation in the realization in the text of the novel of the innovative meaning of theresurrection, as a rethinking of the court case in the history of service, is analyzed. The author’s observations on systemic relations are limited to a narrow range of vocabulary, due to the small coverage of the topic at this initial stage of the study. Conclusions are made on the basis of both phonogrammatic and semantic observations.