Ideologeme Pochva (‘Soil’) and Its Origin (On the Material of Ivan S. Aksakov’s Journalism)

Current article considers specific features of author’s comprehension of the ideologeme pochva (‘soil’) in Ivan S. Aksakov’s journalism. Journalistic texts constituted the majority in the Russian standard language of the 19th century; ideologemes’ semantics was determined with author’s point of view in texts of that type. Thus, in case of words’ history in 19th century consideration the analysis of works belonged to different social-political direction is required. One is the main direction of the 19th-century public discussion was Slavophilism. Slavophiles’ works have not been researched thoroughly by linguists. The research is held on the material of Ivan S. Aksakov’s journalistic texts, because this author has designed a particular social-political conception on the base of senior slavophiles’ theoretical views as a part of the public discussion’s context. The analysis of the ideologeme’s pochva usage in Aksakov’s texts shows the meaning ‘the deepest point, the consistent development is based on’. The contextual environment of the word we consider includes vocabulary the political metaphor «ground-soil» is represented with. It actualizes religious and social-political components of meaning simultaneously, and elements of the direct meaning. The semantic specific of the word pochva in Ivan S. Aksakov’s journalism has been caused by influence of the word der Boden and contextual semantic interaction of words. Words’ organization in contexts is influenced by slavophiles’ perception of the German philosophy tradition. In this way the research can complement the word’s pochva semantic history in 19th century brought forward by Viktor V. Vinogradov, and denote the word’s terrain influence’s lack in it.