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Погода и её концептуализация в русском языке
Conceptualizing Weather in the Russian Language

Author(s): Alla Kamalova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Russian language; word; semantics; diachrony; synchronism; categorization; conceptualization; weather

Summary/Abstract: The author describes ways of conceptualizing weather in the modern Russian language,Russian dialects and old Russian language, based on data of various dictionaries. The authorreveals the basic lexical meaning and functions of the word weather, describes ways of differentiationof polysemy of the given word.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: X
  • Page Range: 31-36
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian