SOUND IMAGES OF THE KAMA REGION IN LITERARY JOURNEYS OF THE XIX CENTURY: SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

Abstract

The article analyzes the sound images of space in literary travels of the XIX - early XX centuries on the river Kama and its tributaries: Vishera, Kosva, Chusovaya. There is given a characteristic of the sound environ-ment, which forms the sound landscape - one of the cultural landscape components. Sound images of space are considered as a component of a geographical image, which in the perspective of cultural geography is interpreted as a system of interrelated and interacting signs, symbols, archetypes and stereotypes that clearly characterize any territory, place, country. Methods for identifying geographical images of a territo-ry are in demand in literary and geographical maps designing, tourist products development, tourist terri-tories marketing. To characterize geographical images in the travel genre, author uses spatial text analysis and research topographic text components, sensitive impressions, and sound images. Spatial text analysis method is promising not only for elaboration interdisciplinary approaches in cultural geography, but also for practical purposes in tourism development. Cruise tourism along the Kama River belongs to the priority types of tourism in the Perm Territory. The region is faced with the task of creating a tourist product that meets the criteria of the national tourist route. Research of the “steamship travel” geographical images is important for development marketing concept of the Kama cruises.