The paper considers the relation of semantic opposition in terms of the prototype theory of concepts. Its purpose is to provide information on peripheral or border areas of the category of semantic opposition. Data from linguistic analyzes, as well as the results of contemporary corpus studies, indicate that pairs of co-hyponyms from multi-element sets are potentially relevant material in peripheral areas of the category of semantic opposition. A psycholinguistic study was conducted to verify the psychological reality of the data. 720 Polish language users were instructed to provide semantic oppositions to the list of 24 stimuli words (test of directed associations). The research material was Polish nouns belonging to 3 lexical fields: animals, plants and artifacts, with no obvious semantic oppositions (as bee, cabbage, vase). It turned out that, according to the hypothesis, proportions of reactions classified as co-hyponyms of stimuli are high: for 21 stimuli it was 52–94% of the response corpora and for 22 stimuli the dominant reaction was co-hyponym of the stimulus word (as cabbage-lettuce, bee-wasp, vase-flowerpot). The characteristics that determine the choice of a given co-hyponym as the semantic opposite of the stimulus were identified. The remainder of the response corpus was analyzed in order to reveal other ways and mechanisms for seeking the semantic opposition by respondents. The data obtained in the presented study confirm the necessity to incorporate the problem of co-hyponymic pairs from multi-element sets into reflections on the category of the semantic opposition.
The purpose of this study is to analyse the lexical and grammatical means employed in the semantic oppositions of Jeŭdakija Loś’s poetry as the basis of parallelism with relations of comparison and opposition. The article deals with the linguistic representation of the semantic oppositions life – death, light – darkness, heat – cold as basic universal categories in the discourse of the Belarusian poetess Jeŭdakija Loś. When exploring the research material, the scientific approaches of Roman Yakobson and Yuri Lotman were taken into account, who studied the role of various grammatical categories in the formation of meaning. The relevance of the study lies in deepening the understanding of the communicative aspect of the poetic text as a dialogue between the author and the reader. The article shows the feature of decoding of meaning on the basis of not only lexical but also grammatical representatives. This makes it possible to expand the possibility of analysing poetry as an original language system in which words, interacting with each other, show combinatorial increments of meaning. As a result of this approach, the reader’s role in co-creation along with the poet becomes evident. The functional-stylistic and structural-descriptive methods of analysis used in the study make it possible to characterize the role of linguistic means in modelling the poet’s style. The conclusions of the article confirm the explication of the reader’s meaning through philosophical oppositions and their linguistic expression. The results of the study show the importance of further study of communicative style in creating a dialogue between the poet and the reader.
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Мэтай дадзенага даследавання з’яўляецца аналіз лексіка-граматычных сродкаў сэнсавых апазіцый паэзіі Еўдакіі Лось як асновы паралелізму з адносінамі супастаўлення і супрацьпастаўлення. У артыкуле разглядаецца моўная рэпрэзентацыя сэнсавых апазіцый жыццё – смерць, святло – цемра, цяпло – холад як базавых універсальных катэгорый у дыскурсе беларускай паэткі Еўдакіі Лось. Пры характарыстыцы фактычнага матэрыялу ўлічваліся навуковыя падыходы Рамана Якабсона і Юрыя Лотмана, якія разглядалі ролю розных граматычных катэгорый у фарміраванні сэнсу. Актуальнасць даследавання заключаецца ў паглыбленні разумення камунікатыўнага аспекту паэтычнага тэксту як дыялогу паміж аўтарам і чытачом. У артыкуле паказана асаблівасць дэкадавання сэнсу на аснове не толькі лексічных, але і граматычных рэпрэзентантаў. Гэта дазваляе пашырыць магчымасць аналізу паэзіі як арыгінальнай моўнай сістэмы, у якой словы, узаемадзейнічаючы адзін з адным, праяўляюць камбінаторныя прырашчэнні сэнсу. У выніку такога падыходу становіцца відавочнай роля чытача ў сутворчасці з паэтам. Выкарыстаныя ў даследаванні функцыянальна-стылістычны і структурна-апісальны метады аналізу дазваляюць ахарактарызаваць ролю моўных сродкаў у мадэляванні стылю паэта. Вывады артыкула пацвярджаюць эксплікацыю чытацкага сэнсу праз філасофскія апазіцыі і іх моўнае выражэнне. Вынікі праведзенага даследавання сведчаць аб важнасці далейшага вывучэння камунікатыўнай стылістыкі ў стварэнні дыялогу паміж паэтам і чытачом.
This article situates itself within a trend of structuralist semantics and discusses the Polish notions associated with the forms względnie, stosunkowo, and relatywnie. The expressions względnie and relatywnie represent various lexical units; however the form stosunkowo corresponds to only one concept. Although these units have endings typical of adverbs (-e /-o), they do not belong to the object level of the language, but instead they perform meta predicative or metatextual functions, characteristic of some so-called function words. This is directly related to the properties of the adjectives względny, stosunkowy, and relatywny, with which they remain in clear formal and semantic relations. Despite some similarities in meaning, the meta-predicates względnie, stosunkowo, and relatywnie are not synonyms, contrary to their lexicographic descriptions. This article aims to show the differences between them, and thus, elucidate their meanings.
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Artykuł sytuuje się w jednym z nurtów semantyki strukturalistycznej, a dotyczy trzech polskich pojęć ukrywających się za formami względnie, stosunkowo i relatywnie. Kształty względnie i relatywnie reprezentują różne jednostki leksykalne, należące do różnych poziomów języka, formie stosunkowo odpowiada jedno znaczenie. Choć leksemy stanowiące przedmiot analizy mają zakończenie -e / -o, tzn. takie, jak typowe przysłówki, nie należą one do języka przedmiotowego, pełnią funkcje metapredykatywne, charakterystyczne dla pewnych klas tzw. wyrazów funkcyjnych. Ma to bezpośredni związek m.in. z własnościami przymiotników względny, stosunkowy i relatywny, z którymi pozostają w wyraźnych zależnościach formalnych i semantycznych. Mimo podobieństw znaczeniowych metapredykaty względnie, stosunkowo i relatywnie nie są, wbrew niektórym opisom leksykograficznym, synonimami. W artykule podjęta została próba wykazania różnic między nimi i, co za tym idzie, przybliżenia ich znaczeń.
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