Lexicographically undescribed words from the oldest Russian manuscript of the “Ladder” by St. John Climacus
This article examines the functioning of rare and unique vocabulary in the oldest Russian manuscript of The Ladder by St. John Climacus, created in the mid-twelfth century. The aim of the study is to introduce new material into scholarly circulation in the fields of historical lexicology and historical lexicography. The principal research method employed is linguotextual analysis.
By comparing the lexical composition of the manuscript with the evidence provided by Old Church Slavonic dictionaries...
‘Mother’, ‘wife’ and ‘friend’: semantics and pragmatics of an address
This article explores the semantic and pragmatic features of the word 'mother' when used as a term of address. It examines secondary uses of the term in literary texts from the 1780s to the present, a sample of 4,272 tokens, alongside dictionary definitions. The study revealed that, in different communicative situations, the term 'mother' can convey a range of sometimes contradictory attributes such as 'patronage', 'superiority', 'dependency', 'strictness', 'kindness', 'overfamiliarity' and other...
