Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian: 24 (Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe) - Hardcover

Volkova, Bronislava

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027215294 ISBN 13: 9789027215291

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1987

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027215294
• ISBN 13: 9789027215291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282