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Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian
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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.
[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 24] 1987. xi, 270 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 November 2011
Published online on 7 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
- Table of contents | pp. v–x
- Abbreviations | pp. xi–11
- Introduction: Toward An Integral Semantic Description of Language and Communication | pp. 1–4
- I. Emotive Signs | pp. 5–34
- 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
- II. Derived Substantives with Emotive Meaning | pp. 35–54
- 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
- III. Structural Characteristics of Diminutives | pp. 55–88
- 1. Semantic Properties of Diminutives
- 2. Classification of the Diminutive Suffixes
- 3. Structural Oppositions of Diminutive Derivatives: Gradation
- 4. Positive vs. Negative Emotive Component in Diminutive Derivatives
- Notes
- IV. Semantic and Contextual Functioning of Diminutives | pp. 89–148
- 1. Structure of the Emotive Meaning of Diminutives
- 2. Semantic Function of the Suffix
- 3. Semantic Function of the Base, Diminutive Derivatives as Lexemes
- 4. Role of the Context
- 5. Conclusions: Semiotic Typology of Diminutives
- Notes
- V. Pragmatic Analysis of Diminutives | pp. 149–176
- 1. Introduction: Questions to Be Posed
- 2. The Synthetic Type
- 3. The Analytical Type
- 4. The Combined Type
- 5. Conclusions
- VI. Semantic Structure of Derived Substantives | pp. 177–218
- 1. Introduction: Questions to Be Posed
- 2. Modificational Derivatives
- 3. Mutative Derivatives
- 4. Conclusions
- Notes
- VII. Typology of Emotive Signs | pp. 219–230
- 1. Introduction: The Concept of Emotive Sign
- 2. Symbolic Indices
- 3. Pure Indices
- 4. Types of Symbolic Indices
- 5. Conclusions
- VIII. Emotive Semantics | pp. 231–248
- 1. Emotive Language vs. Emotive Discourse, Functions
- 2. Typology of Emotive Meanings
- 3. Potentiality of Emotive Signs
- Notes
- Conclusions: Perspectives | pp. 249–250
- Sources and Their Abbreviations as Used in Text | pp. 251–254
- | pp. 255–270
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