Emotive signs in language and semantic functioning of derived nouns in Russian / / Bronislava Volek

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957721003321
• Autore: Volek Bronislava
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1987
• ISBN: 1-283-32841-0; 9786613328410; 90-272-7891-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 pages)
• Collana: Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe, , 0165-7712 ; ; v. 24
• Disciplina: 491.75
• Soggetti: Russian language - Semantics; Emotive (Linguistics); Russian language - Diminutives; Russian language - Noun
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: EMOTIVE SIGNS IN LANGUAGE AND SEMANTIC FUNCTIONING OF DERIVED NOUNS IN RUSSIAN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION:TOWARD AN INTEGRAL SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION; CHAPTER I. EMOTIVE SIGNS; 1. Emotivity and Expressivity.; 2. The Content of the Concept of ""Emotivity"" and the Range of its Application.; 3. Emotivity and the Question of Linguistic Level.; 4. Typical Emotive Signs of Various Levels.; 5. The Emotive Sign: Definition and Basic Typology.; 6. Utterances with Emotive Dominants.; NOTES; CHAPTER II. DERIVED SUBSTANTIVES WITH EMOTIVE MEANING; 1. Emotive vs. Evaluative Components.; 2. The Semantic Character of the Base Stem.; 3. The Influence of Onomasiological Categories.; 4. The Semantic Character of the Suffixes Taking Part in the Derivation of Emotive Nouns.; NOTES; CHAPTER III STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DIMINUTIVES; 1. Semantic Properties of Diminutives.; 1.1. Polysemous Character.; 1.2. The Structure of Meaning of Diminutives.; 2. Classification of the Diminutive Suffixes.; 2.1. Semantically Ambivalent Diminutive Suffixes.; 2.2. Meliorative Diminutive Suffixes.; 2.3. Pejorative Diminutive Suffixes.2.3.1. Two-morphemic Productive Compound Suffixes.; 2.3.2. The Three-morphemic Compound Suffix.; 2.4. Ambivalent and Non-ambivalent Suffixes: General Characteristics.; 3. Structural Oppositions of Diminutive Derivatives: Gradation.; 3.1. Emotive and Quantitative Components.; 3.2. Gradation.; 3.3. Suffixes from the Point of View of Oppositions of Derivatives.; 3.4. Pejorative Suffixes.; 3.5. Conditions for the Formation of the Indeterminate Degree.; 4. Positive vs. Negative Emotive Component in Diminutive Derivatives.; NOTES; CHAPTER IV. SEMANTIC AND CONTEXTUAL FUNCTIONING OF DIMINUTIVES; 1. Structure of the Emotive Meaning of Diminutives.; 2. Semantic Function of the Suffix.; 3. Semantic Functions of the Base. Diminutive Derivatives as Lexemes.; 3.1. Neutral Bases with Quantifiable Denotata.; 3.2. Neutral Bases with Unquantifiable Denotata.; 3.3. Marked Bases.; 3.4. Lexicalized Diminutives.; 4. Role of the Context.; 4.1. Partial Context.; 5. Conclusions. Semiotic Typology of Diminutives.; NOTES; CHAPTER V. PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF DIMINUTIVES; 1. Introduction: Questions to Be Posed.; 2. The Synthetic Type.; 3. The Analytical Type.4. The Combined Type.; 4.1. The Secondary Stimulus is the Addressee.; 4.2. The Secondary Stimulus is Another Object of the Utterance.; 5. Conclusions.; CHAPTER VI. SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF DERIVED SUBSTANTIVES; 1. Introduction: Questions to Be Posed.; 2. Modificational Derivatives; 2.1. Diminutives.; 2.2. Augmentatives.; 2.3. Emotive Modifcational Derivatives with No Regular Supportive Semantic Components.; 2.4. Modificational Categories with Marginal Emotive Components.; 3. Mutative Derivatives.; 3.1. Desubstantival Derivatives (Names of Persons); 3.2. Derivatives from Nominal, Verbal, Adverbial Phrases and Adverbs (Names of Persons).
• Sommario/riassunto: This monograph is intended as a contribution to the integral description of language and verbal communication. Chapter I and Chapters VII and VIII are concerned with general problems of emotivity and expressivity in language as such and on all linguistic levels. These chapters describe emotivity from a new semiotic perspective and suggest a typology of emotive signs and meanings. Chapter II discusses general methodology of investigating and "measuring" emotive meaning in the area of word-formation (with examples from Russian). Chapters III, IV and V treat Russian diminutives fromgeneral-structural, lexical-contextual and pragmatic perspectives, while Chapter VI presents a comparison of the semantic structures of the various types of emotive noun derivatives which exist in Russian. The book thus begins with a general treatment on emotivity, goes on to consider the specific case of emotive noun-formation, giving special attention to the Russian diminutives, and then returns, by way of a comparison of the semantic structures of various types of emotive nouns, to more general problems of emotivity in language and to semiotic typology.