‘Mother’, ‘wife’ and ‘friend’: semantics and pragmatics of an address
... traits. The metaphor of family is extended into a broader social context and can transcend societal boundaries to enter the realm of abstraction.
The cluster model by George Lakoff, which allows for the coexistence of transfer models in secondary usage, is suggested as a tool to describe the pragmatics of addressing a person as a 'mother'. However, unlike Lakoff's works, this study applies the cluster model not to idealised cognitive models — those of birth, genetics, upbringing, and others ...
Semantic transformation of the noun mamochka: from ‘wife’ to ‘cannon’
... kinship term ‘mamochka’ as an example. The article focuses on instances where the word ‘mamochka’ is used in fiction and, to some extent, Internet texts. The article examines cases spanning from the 1840s to the 2010s to explore the secondary usage of the term. The corpus, comprising a total of 2,192 cases, was carefully collected and annotated. Out of these cases, 362 examples were identified as instances of secondary usage. Each example was analyzed and categorized based on its type of ...
Idiomaticity of translation as assessive category
This article will clarify the use of the term “idiomaticity” in its evaluative meaning in relation to translation. Idiomaticity is considered from the point of view of compliance with the norm of usage as a category that ensures the naturalness of translated discourse. The example of translated texts will be used to show the results of the translator’s ability or inability to switch codes in an idiomatic mode. With the help of introspection ...
Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points
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linguistic diversity, quantitative methods, asystem text linguistics, corpus linguistics,...
Author's word usage as a means to create a literary image in the Tales in two parts by A. I. Solzhenitsyn
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Savina L. M.
semantics, stylistic functions, author's word usage, fiction, text
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