Semantic-onomasiological peculiarity of the metalanguage lexical-phraseological field in the Russian and English languages

Authors

  • Marina S. Gutovskaya Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

lexical-phraseological field, metalanguage nominative units, motivation, idiomaticity, onomasiological differences between lexemes and phrasemes

Abstract

The paper considers motivation of nominative units and related to it idiomaticity, shows gradual nature of these properties. It proposes a classification of nominative units (lexemes and phrasemes) by the type of relationship between the signified and the signifier which distinguishes phonetical, component-based and associative motivation and partial and complete conventionality. It demonstrates the possibilities of applying the onomasiological classification by the example of the Russian and English metalanguage (connected with language and speech) lexical-phraseological fields. It determines the ratio of the transparent and opaque units in the fields (3,2‒3,3 : 1) and their lexical (1,6‒1,9 : 1) and phraseological (7,3‒10 : 1) parts and the relative frequency of the various forms of motivation. It notes that the lexemes mostly convey general cognitive meanings, the phrasemes ‒ particular emotive (predominantly) and particular cognitive meanings.

Author Biography

  • Marina S. Gutovskaya, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (philology), docent; head of the department of English linguistics, faculty of philology

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2019-08-09

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No. 2 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology

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Linguistics

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Gutovskaya, M.S. 2019. Semantic-onomasiological peculiarity of the metalanguage lexical-phraseological field in the Russian and English languages. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology. 2 (Aug. 2019), 29–41.