SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF ‘SPACE’ IN ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Херсонського державного університету. Серія: “Лінгвістика” - Year 2018, Vol 32, Issue
Abstract
This research paper is dedicated to the issues of modern cognitive linguistics, with the study of conceptualization, i.e. subjective perception of basic cognitive domains of space, time, motion etc. by the speakers of various natural languages, being one of its major schools. The focus here is on the specific aspects of conceptualization of the ‘space’ domain, which, according to previous research, correlate with structural features of respective languages. The subject-matter of our research is the peculiar features of conceptualization of the ‘space’ domain by the native speakers of English and Ukrainian. Thus, the purpose of our investigation is the comparative analysis of Eng. space and Ukr. простір. To achieve this purpose, we set to analyze the definitions of both terms given in the Oxford Dictionary of English and the Comprehensive Dictionary of Modern Ukrainian respectively. Based on the language material sourced from the British National Corpus and the Corpus of the Ukrainian language, the lexical concepts in the semantic structures of these terms have been revealed by means of the lexical concepts and cognitive models methodology. The comparative analysis of the lexical concepts allows to identify more common, than distinct, semantic features of Eng. space and Ukr. простір. To the common features there refer such lexical concepts as DIMENSIONS, EXPANSION, FINITENESS and INFINITY. The difference has been found in the semantic structure of Ukr. простір, namely – the concept of PLANE, which is not peculiar to Eng. space. Based on the data obtained, the conclusion about general similarity in conceptualizations related to Eng. space and Ukr. простір, and the corresponding ideas of space as an abstract category has been drawn. The research perspectives in this field have been outlined.
Authors and Affiliations
Anastasiia Yarmoliuk, Natalia Kudriavtseva
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP635480
- DOI -
- Views 95
- Downloads 0
FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC PARADIGM OF THE ONE-SYLLABLE ACTUAL IMPERSONAL SENTENCE IN THE MODERN MEDIA DISCOURSE (ON THE MATERIAL OF UKRAINIAN NEWSPAPERS)
The article deals with the functional-semantic paradigm of actually impersonal sentences that make up the core of impersonality. The main member of the analyzed monosyllable sentences is expressed by an impersonal verb,...
TRANSLATION OF THE GERMAN JURISTIC TEXTS INTO UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRAXEOLOGY
The article is concerned with the need to use the methods of praxeology at the translation of the German juristic texts into the Ukrainian language. Author regards a question of interconnection of language and jurisprude...
TYPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EPIDEICTIC DISCOURSE
The article is devoted to the study of epideictic discourse which has unique opportunities in terms of transmitting attitudes about the evaluation of certain events / phenomena, models of desired / acceptable social beha...
COMPILATION OF MODERN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE
The article analyzes the rules for compiling modern German-language business correspondence. It is established that business correspondence as a genre of the official-business style of the German language is undergoing a...
PHONETICS GENESISINTHE SYSTEMOF LANGUAGE ORIGIN HYPOTHESES
The genesis analyzing of phonetics as the branch of knowledge about the sound structure of language is given in the article; its interconnection with phonology in the system of religious, biological and social hypotheses...