The conceptual structure of V. M. Egorov's detective works

Abstract

The relevance of the topic of the article is due to the increasing interest of literary critics in the notion of concept, which can be organically reflected in the detective genre. The purpose of the study wass to analyze the conceptual structure of detective works by the famous Yakut writer Vitaly Mikhailovich Egorov. The material for the study was seven works by the specified author, written in the genre of detective stories relevant to modern literature (“The Adychan tragedy”, “Retribution to the monster”, “Kara Chochur Murana”, “Fears of the Hill of Love”, “Connecting Rods”, “In the footsteps of the Yakut Haig”, and “Following the trail"). The article reveals the features of the main concepts that make up the structure of these works. The scholarly novelty lies in the development of our own model of the frame-slot structure of V. M. Egorov's detective works based on the works of Russian researchers M. Minsky, V. Z. Demyankov, A. P. Chudinova, and Y. N. Filistova. As a result of the research, the authors of the article identified the following conceptual structure of V. M. Egorov's detective stories: crime – mystery – investigation – punishment. Main conclusions: the frame-slot model of V. M. Egorov's novels considered fully corresponds to the traditional structure of the detective; frame structures can act as conceptual bases for the formation of storylines in detective works. In the future, concept frames can be used as a support for identifying the structure of detective texts of Yakut literature in interdisciplinary research.