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An onomasiological competition

A view from sociocultural perspective

| The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

An onomasiological competition between lexical units, in which they compete to name a certain object (phenomenon, process, event, etc.), rarely attracts the attention of linguists, mainly due to an interdisciplinary nature of such research and the lack of a developed methodology for that. In this article, the author presents a case study of the onomasiological competition between constructions of otkryvat' butylku (‘to open a bottle’) and otkuporivat' butylku (‘to uncork a bottle’) during the 19th and 20th centuries and reveals sociocultural factors influencing the course and result of this competition. Based on this analysis, a few sociocultural scenarios that should be taken into consideration in research of various types of onomasiological competition are presented.

Keywords: onomasiology, concept, diachronic analysis, sociocultural perspective, bottle opening
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Basic approaches to the definition of onomasiology: Some critical remarks
  • 3.The case study: The onomasiological competition between the constructions of otkryvat' butylku and otkuporivat' butylku in 19th century Russian
  • 4.The case study: The onomasiological competition between the constructions otkryvat' butylku and otkuporivat' butylku in 20th century Russian
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 2 March 2023
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