лингвокультурология, универсалии текста, функции лексики, демонологическая лексика, демонологема, славянская традиция, индивидуально-авторские номинации, ассоциативно-семантическое поле, linguoculture studies, text universals, vocabulary functions, demonological vocabulary, demonologeme, slavic tradition, individual author's nominations, associative-semantic ield, Law, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, AZ20-999

The article deals with linguocultural features of de-monological vocabulary functioning in the context of the Slavic folklore tradition on the material of the fantastic novel by V. Orlov «Violist Danilov». Demono-logical vocabulary refers to lexical units that nominate «otherworldly» characters, realities and phenomena associated with them and which also have to do with harming a person. The functional and pragmatic potential and the textual significance of a special class of demonological vocabulary - demonologem performing text and meaning-forming functions, which acquire this status as part of the strong positions of the work, are noted. In the course of the analysis, linguopragmatic and linguocultural features of de-monological units, which are most common in the novel, are identified. It is specified that they perform nominative, characterological, attractive, emotive, informative, evaluative and aesthetic-artistic functions at the textual level. The appeal to the classiication of this vocabulary in both structural and semantic terms attests to its linguocultural specifics, reflecting the author's worldview - addressing both traditional folklore personal types and cosmic «super-beings». Most monolexes representing demonological characters are formed from different parts of speech due to a motivated attribute and through metaphorical and metonymic transfer. Individual-author's nominative units are given, features of functioning in terms of creating a ictional world are explained.