USE OF ENGLISH PRONOUNS AS NOMINATIVE UNITS IN THE PROCESS OF THEIR FULFILLING THE FUNCTIONS OF ETIQUETTE
Abstract
The article deals with the English language pronouns from the point of view of their ability to serve as alternative nominative units the use of which is dictated by speech etiquette. The approach adopted in the article required the solution of a number of theoretical questions: 1) what is nomination from the linguistic and epistemological point of view; 2) what are the types of nominative units in terms of their being or not being fixed in the language system, and also the principal differences in the nomination in language and speech; 3) whether pronouns can be considered nominative means; 4) what is the peculiarity of the denotative aspect of the meaning of pronouns; 5) what functions of etiquette does the variation of a nominative unit, a pronoun in particular, perform? The article concludes that the socalled “non-naming “ words (those intended for the actual deictic function-pointing to a concrete object of reality, as well as those having universal, generalized meanings) denote objective attributes of objects, and therefore it is appropriate to talk about the denotative meaning of pronouns. However, these are attributes that are not inherent in a given object permanently, they are such which an object can possess only relative to another object. And from this point of view ideal denotata of deictic and universal words are relative (I, you, it, etc.). Being the reflection of objective attributes, on the one hand, and being relative, on the other, makes them suitable for substituting both “naming” words, and other types of “non-naming “ words in the process of performing the functions of etiquette. The article gives examples of both ways in which pronouns are used as a means of speech etiquette.
About the Author
E. V. Golubkova
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Golubkova Elena Vladimirovna – PhD, Associate Professor of Department of English №8
76, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454
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For citations:
Golubkova E.V. USE OF ENGLISH PRONOUNS AS NOMINATIVE UNITS IN THE PROCESS OF THEIR FULFILLING THE FUNCTIONS OF ETIQUETTE. Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2017;(11):12-18. (In Russ.)
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