Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Abbreviations | p. xi
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Introduction: Toward An Integral Semantic Description of Language and Communication | p. 1
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I. Emotive Signs | p. 5
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1. Emotivity and Expressivity
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2. The Content of the Concept of “Emotivity” and the Range of its Application
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3. Emotivity and the Question of Linguistic Level
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4. Typical Emotive Signs of Various Levels
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5. The Emotive Sign: Definition and Basic Typology
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6. Utterances with Emotive Dominants
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Notes
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II. Derived Substantives with Emotive Meaning | p. 35
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1. Emotive vs. Evaluative Components
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2. The Semantic Character of the Base Stem
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3. The Influence of Onomasiological Categories
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4. The Semantic Character of the Suffixes Taking Part in the Derivation of Emotive Nouns
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Notes
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III. Structural Characteristics of Diminutives | p. 55
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1. Semantic Properties of Diminutives
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2. Classification of the Diminutive Suffixes
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3. Structural Oppositions of Diminutive Derivatives: Gradation
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4. Positive vs. Negative Emotive Component in Diminutive Derivatives
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Notes
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IV. Semantic and Contextual Functioning of Diminutives | p. 89
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1. Structure of the Emotive Meaning of Diminutives
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2. Semantic Function of the Suffix
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3. Semantic Function of the Base, Diminutive Derivatives as Lexemes
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4. Role of the Context
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5. Conclusions: Semiotic Typology of Diminutives
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Notes
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V. Pragmatic Analysis of Diminutives | p. 149
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1. Introduction: Questions to Be Posed
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2. The Synthetic Type
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3. The Analytical Type
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4. The Combined Type
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5. Conclusions
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VI. Semantic Structure of Derived Substantives | p. 177
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1. Introduction: Questions to Be Posed
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2. Modificational Derivatives
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3. Mutative Derivatives
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4. Conclusions
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Notes
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VII. Typology of Emotive Signs | p. 219
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1. Introduction: The Concept of Emotive Sign
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2. Symbolic Indices
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3. Pure Indices
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4. Types of Symbolic Indices
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5. Conclusions
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VIII. Emotive Semantics | p. 231
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1. Emotive Language vs. Emotive Discourse, Functions
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2. Typology of Emotive Meanings
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3. Potentiality of Emotive Signs
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Notes
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Conclusions: Perspectives | p. 249
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Sources and Their Abbreviations as Used in Text | p. 251
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