regarded as one of the most important concepts in structuralism, the theory of binary opposition has long been used as a yardstick against which structuralists measure their researches in the wide realms of linguistics, narratives, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, and psychology. employing binary opposition in structural anthropology, lévi-strauss aimed to discover human’s cognitive ...

The article analyzes the lexical oppositions in V. Bazilevsky’s poetic dictionary. productivity of antonymic pairs, components which represent religious ideas a person: soul – body, spirit and heaven hell, is traced. Individual authorial genitive metaphors typical for artist’s idiostyle, based on semantically opposed lexemes, testify to originality perception world, have been identified. contex...