The semantic potential of the lexeme ‘organ’ in Russian poetry: one’s оwn and someone else’s
The potentially inexhaustible semantic potential of the word, reflected in the full range of its conventional meanings and individual authorial reinterpretations as manifested in literary discourse, has repeatedly attracted philological attention. One such polycode sign, distinguished by a broad semantic spectrum and complex syntagmatic behaviour, is the word ‘organ’. This article analyses the literal and figurative uses, as well as the metaphorical transformations, of the lexeme ‘organ’ in Russian...
