CONCEPTUAL BASIS OF THE SEMANTICS OF THE LEXICAL UNIT ‘STRENGTH’ IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH
https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2018-1-13-68-74
Abstract
The article focuses on a complex analysis of the mechanisms of representing the concept ‘Strength’ in the semantics of the lexeme ‘strength’. The analysis allows identifying the frame of ‘Strength’ – a complex of elements, such as ‘subject’, ‘ability’, and ‘activity’. The article also looks at the development of the frame in context. The contexts are taken from the dictionary entries to the word ‘strength’ and from the British National Corpus. The results of the analysis allow revealing a whole spectrum of representations of ‘Strength’. The article concludes by building the detailed conceptual basis of the representation of ‘Strength’ in the semantic content of the lexeme ‘strength’.
About the Author
Evgeniia O. Sheveleva
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Moscow State Linguistic University»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
38/1, Ostozhenka, Moscow, 119034
Evgeniia O. Sheveleva – PhD, associate Professor of the Department of English Lexicology, the Faculty of the English Language, MSLU (Moscow, Russia). Spheres of research and professional interest: cognitive linguistics, frame semantics, cultural linguistics.
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Sheveleva E.O. CONCEPTUAL BASIS OF THE SEMANTICS OF THE LEXICAL UNIT ‘STRENGTH’ IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH. Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2018;1(13):68-74. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2018-1-13-68-74
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