Article

Name: On the semantics of the word страдание (suffering): страдание 1 as a physical object

Authors: Ponomaryova E.S.

Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The article is devoted to search of semantic elements of the meaning of the word ‘suffering’ from the point of view of the conceptualization of it as it means a physical object. This search is limited by the method of object’s connotations representing and by the contexts from Russian National Corpus. At the end of analysis the relevant attributes of the word’s conceptual meaning are named.

Keywords: cognitive linguistics; semantic component; relevant attribute of the word’s meaning; object’s connotations; conceptualization

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