The role of the concorded renaming in the formation of the oikonymy in the Kaliningrad Region
The article examines the ways in which the original East Prussian and new Soviet oikonyms were concorded during the post-war renaming of some settlements in the Kaliningrad region. A comparative phonetic and semantic analysis of the respective names revealed that the same thematic correlation (with a predominance of references to the flora, fauna and water bodies of the area) and ideological antonymy, usually manifested in an indirect form, prevail among them. In addition, translation (usually partial)...
Specific ways to interpret the biblical expressions paradise and hell in the headings of aphoristic definitions
This paper describes ways to interpret the lexemes paradise and hell in definition-like aphorisms resembling a dictionary entry. These definitions use both traditional universal ways to interprets words and specific ones, in particular, association, antonymy-based distinction, repetition-based distinction, and formal signalling. When association is invoked, the lexemes paradise and hell are interpreted based on metaphorical convergence and metonymic adjacency. Antonymy-based distinction means...
On the definition of "dichotomy" in linguistics
The author considers the functioning of the term "dichotomy" in philoso-phy, logic and linguistics; analyzes the essence of the concept of "dichotomy" and its semantic relatedness to the concepts of "antinomy", "antonymy" and "binary opposition".
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Where and how meanings emerge
... Mechanisms: Semantic Attraction. Proceedings of the V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, 1, pp. 82—91,
https://doi.org/10.31912/pvrli-2022.1.9
(in Russ.).
Zolyan, S. T., 2023a. The semiotic perpetuum mobile in action: OMON, homonyms and antonyms. Slovo.ru: Baltic accent, 14 (1), pp. 86—106,
https://doi.org/
10.5922/2225- 5346-2023-1-6 (in Russ.).
Zolyan, S. T., 2023b. Semantics of linguistic sign in the light of the asymmetrical dualism theory: Possible extensions. Voprosy Jazykoznanija ...
The semiotic perpetuum mobile in action: OMON, homonyms and antonyms
We address the interaction of various interpretations of lexical items, which leads to a change in the correlation between signifieds and signifiers and the formation of new signs. Addressing the polysemic slogan ‘ОМОН-И-МЫ — АНТОНИМЫ’, we explicate the mechanism of semiotic Perpetuum mobile, that is, the cyclic recursions that allow simultaneous actualization of various interpretations of this utterance. We demonstrate that the analysis of semantic relations in their dynamics...
English and Russian evaluative adverbs
... between the relevant pairs of Russian and English evaluative adverbs. It has resulted in a list of Russian and the corresponding English pairs of adverbs. Chains of quasi-synonymous words linking the adverbs are constructed. An important feature of antonyms is the fact that negatively-oriented antonyms are marked with respect to the positive ones. The different methods for the determination of semantic metrics in the Osgood’s space are described. Usage of geodesic distance between two arbitrary ...
Dream interpretation in the Assyrian Dream Book: The invention of tradition
... characteristics include belief in the prophetic power of dreams, ritual orientation to men, regard for image polysemy and the use of symbols, employment of such mechanisms as metaphor, metonymy, pragmatic shifts, patronymic attraction, replacements based on the antonym principle. These mechanisms are identified as underlying the formation of symbolic content structures.
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The functional features of verbs with antonymic prefixes in the panegyrical works of F. Prokopovich
An integrated approach to the analysis of language facts makes it possible to establish that the functioning of word-forming antonyms in F. Prokopovich’s panegyrics is limited by the spatial meaning of prefixes and the genre of the text.
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