SEMANTIC DEVELOPMENT IN ENGLISH LITERARY WORDS: DIACHRONIC ASPECT
https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2019-2-18-19-26
Abstract
This article focuses on sematic analysis of literary words in a historical perspective. This research draws on English dictionaries of different time periods including the first Dictionary of English Language by Samuel Johnson (1755), Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries of the X1X-XX centuries and the beginning of the XX1 century. The object of the research is bookish words most frequently used in upper-class speech of the XV111-X1X c. fiction and therefore implicit linguistic markers of social identity. The aim of this paper is to look into semantics evolution of the selected words diachronically. The article considers the changes this category of words historically undergoes, i.e. generalization, specialization, semantic shifts, metaphor and metonymy, and changes in connotation being the most subtle and difficult to infer. The research outcome testifies to the practical relevance and theoretical significance of the study.
About the Author
A. N. Rakushina
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alfija N. Rakushina - graduate student.
76, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454References
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Rakushina A.N. SEMANTIC DEVELOPMENT IN ENGLISH LITERARY WORDS: DIACHRONIC ASPECT. Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2019;18(2):19-26. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2019-2-18-19-26
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