Sémantické slapy v textových strukturách

• Authors: Luděk Hřebíček

Title variants

EN

Semantic cataracts in text structures

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Assume a semantic space demarcated by a set of lexical units occurring in a text. Their transition into word forms is a dynamic semantic process connected with the collocation of the units in text segments. The aim is to find semantic constructs and constituents and to apply Menzerath-Altmann’s law, which defines the relationship of language constructs and constituents to the semantic text level. Any text is expected to provide a characteristic arrangement of lexical units in their contextual bonds. This can be explained as a feature of semantic dynamism and possibly also of human thinking. We can metaphorically call it a semantic cataract.

Keywords

CS

jazykový konstrukt a konstituent; Menzerathův-Altmannův zákon; textový segment; sémantický konstrukt; sémantická (kontextuální) váha lexikálních jednotek

EN

language construct and constituent; Menzerath-Altmann’s law; text segment; semantic construct; semantic (contextual) weight of lexical units

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 83-90
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Luděk Hřebíček

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic