On the Syncretism in Lexical Semantics
https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-3-79-82
Abstract
The article deals with the questions of syncretism in lexical semantics of words belonging to different parts of speech in two aspects: the syncretism of properties of lexical meanings and the syncretism of lexical meanings. Three types of nomination meanings are singled out: 1) nomination meaning oriented on either a person or an animal, or an object (nomination of one denotative area); 2) evaluative meaning which is simultaneously oriented on a person, animal and an object (characterizing three denotative areas); nomination evaluative meaning oriented on one denotative area naming and characterizing it at the same time. The article provides examples of the syncretism of direct and metonymic, several metonymic, direct and metaphoric, metonymic and metaphoric meanings. Theoretical issues are illustrated by examples from fiction. The author’ observations are focused both on general theoretical issues of semantics and on the practice of teaching vocabulary at schools or institutes of higher education.
About the Author
A. N. Eremin
Kaluga State University named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. of Sci. (Philol.), Professor, Head of the Department, Department of Russian Language,
26 Stepan Razin str., Kaluga, 248023
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Eremin A.N. On the Syncretism in Lexical Semantics. Russian language at school. 2020;81(3):79-82. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-3-79-82
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