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ДЕТСКАЯ РЕЧЬ

CHILDREN'S SPEECH

Уменьшительно-ласкательные слова в речи подростков, обращенной к домашним животным

Diminutives and hypocoristics in adolescents’ pet-directed speech

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Казаковская

В. В.

Kazakovskaya

V. V.

Виктория Виладиевна Казаковская, доктор филологических наук, профессор РАН, ведущий научный сотрудник Отдела теории грамматики

г. Санкт-Петербург

Victoria V. Kazakovskaya, Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor RAS, Leading Researcher of the Department of Grammar Theory

Saint Petersburg

victory805@mail.ru

Институт лингвистических исследований РАНРоссияInstitute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of SciencesRussian Federation

2023

19072023

8442742

2023

Company "Our Language"

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Исследуются уменьшительно-ласкательные слова в асимметричной вербальной коммуникации русскоязычных детей в возрасте от 13 до 16 лет с домашними животными. Материалом для наблюдений послужили полуформальные устные и письменные опросы об использовании диминутивов и гипокористик при общении с питомцами или в разговоре о них. Частотные, семантические и деривационные особенности рассматриваемых дериватов в речи мальчиков и девочек обсуждаются на фоне аналогичных данных, полученных при анализе речи взрослых представителей соответствующего пола. Гендерные и возрастные различия, выявленные в употреблении уменьшительно-ласкательных слов респондентами, статистически значимы. В частности, речь девочек, обращенная к питомцам, оказалась диминутивно богаче речи мальчиков (как в отношении лексем, так и их употреблений). Семантические предпочтения, отмеченные при диминутивизации у подростков обоих полов, сопоставимы, однако отличаются от преференций взрослых носителей языка, равно как и репертуар уменьшительно-ласкательных суффиксов. Прагматические функции использования диминутивов и гипокористик указывают на преимущественное выражение эмпатии, триггером для которой является питомец. В статье также освещаются другие особенности речи подростков, обращенной к домашним животным.

This paper investigates diminutives and hypocoristics in asymmetric verbal communication of Russianspeaking children, aged 13 to 16, when communicating with their pets. Observational data was collected by semi-formal oral and written questionnaires concerning these derivatives used when communicating with and talking about pets. The frequency of diminutives and hypocoristics, as well as their semantic and derivational features in the speech of boys and girls, are considered against the background of similar data of adults of corresponding gender. The gender and age differences identified in the use of diminutives and hypocoristics by respondents are statistically significant. Specifically, girls’ pet-directed speech was diminutively richer than the boys’ (both in terms of lemmas and tokens). The semantic preferences documented during diminutivization in adolescents of both genders are comparable, but differ from those of adults, as does the inventory of diminutive suffixes. The pragmatic functions of the use of diminutives and hypocoristics indicate a predominant expression of empathy, the trigger for which is a pet. The article also highlights other features of adolescent speech when addressing pets.

диминутивыгипокористические именауменьшительно-ласкательные суффиксысловообразованиеасимметричная вербальная коммуникацияречьобращенная к животнымречь подростковженская речьмужская речьэмпатиярусский язык

diminutiveshypocoristicsdiminutive suffixesword-formationasymmetric verbal communicationpet-directed speechadolescents’ speechfemale speechmale speechempathyRussian

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