The concepts of «wilderness» and «backwoods» are considered as objectifying processes of territorial social exclusion and, in some cases, social inclusion. The nuclear and peripheral linguistic means in the structure of semantic fields of these concepts are determined. As the leading representative groups, choronym, spatial qualifiers, descriptives, deictic units, verbal units of social movement in the direction from the object under consideration (backwoods, wilderness ), towards the object under consideration ( backwoods ), qualifiers of the category of negation ( backwoods ) are distinguished. It is concluded that the lexeme backwoods to a greater extent, in comparison with the lexeme wilderness , objectifies the processes of territorial social exclusion in the context.
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