Poetic Sound Picture of the World: Theoretical Basis and Approaches to Practical Investigations

The article considers conceptual aspects of the theory of poetical sound picture of the world as one of the linguistics and culturology directions in the language study, verbalized by means of poetical sound images and represented by the multitude of the author's individualistic ideas of the sounding world, reflected in the Russian poetical idiolect; the way of conceptualizing the poetical sound space. The sound image, as one of the component elements of the literary artist's language picture, is analyzed with the examples of the precedence samples of the Russian poetry of 19th-20th centuries from the point of view of its manifestation in different spheres of poetical universe, in the light of the key lexemes of poetical idiolect.