Isiksuseomaduste semantika
Semantics of personality traits

Summary/Abstract: My interest here concentrates on the concepts of personality traits in Estonian. In the case study the author performed interviews among Estonians using the field method to determine active vocabulary of character traits. Results of the experiment are given in this article too. The choice of the character words and concepts that are in active use can give us an idea about the traits which are considered important for the Estonians. Whereas most common personality traits are expressed by adjectives, I will focus here on the possibilities of analysing them on the conceptual level. I examine most frequent personality adjectives – hard-working, lazy, envious and friendly – in accordance with the principles of frame-semantics.

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