Языки эстетики. Концептуальные поля прекрасного и безобразного

This collected work analyzes and describes lexical, syntactic, intonational and other means of expression of esthetic evaluation in the Russian language. The articles are divided into six chapters: Truth, Good, Beauty: Esthetic evaluation in religious and philosophical contexts; Peculiarities of esthetic evaluation in various national, cultural, and social areas; Esthetics and poetics; Esthetic area of human image; Associative fields and definitions of the beautiful and the ugly; Esthetic evaluation in various types of oral art. Many of the works included are done on the border of two and more disciplines: linguistics, logic, theory of culture, or philology. Bibliographic references.