КОНЦЕПТЫ МОСКВА И ПЕРИФЕРИЯ В РУССКОЙ ЯЗЫКОВОЙ КАРТИНЕ МИРА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ДЕТЕКТИВНОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ)

In the Russian linguistic image of the world the concepts of MOSCOW and THE PROVINCES constitute an opposition since they are placed on two distant valuerelated poles. It seems that in the linguistic awareness there is no rich modern Moscow in separation from the backwards, poor and civilizationally and mentally neglected provinces characterised by parochialism. The characteristic features of both concepts are most clearly visible in their juxtaposition, and without it they lose their meaning. This is a specific relationship which has not been observed in other antonymous pairs of concepts such as good and evil, or wealth and poverty.