The article characterizes Russian Germans, their language, culture and mentality
within the framework of contact linguistics, reveals the essence of the definition of «discourse
community» in general, as well as «discourse community of Russian Germans» in particular.
Considering that the present research is carried out on the material of the artistic discourse of
Russian Germans, the article gives a brief definition of the notions of «discourse» and «artistic
discourse». The work was carried out within the framework of the study of the nominative theory,
therefore, it reveals the essence of the notions of «nomination» and «secondary nomination», by
means of which the emotional component in the nominations of the notion of «Heimat» realizes.
The practical part of the work studies the emotionally colored nominations of the notion of
«Heimat» in the artistic discourse of Russian Germans. A comparative-contrastive analysis of the
dictionary definitions of the lexemes «emotion» and «Emotion» is carried out, the key components
of the notion of «emotion» in Russian and German languages are revealed. Further, a component
analysis of the surroundings of the lexeme «Heimat» is carried out both at the verbal and non-verbal
levels, as well as from the standpoint of lexical, stylistic and grammatical analysis.