THE AESTHETIC POTENTIAL OF THE NOMINATIVE LANGUAGE: MONTHS NAMES Cover Image

ЭСТЕТИЧЕСКИЙ ПОТЕНЦИАЛ НОМИНАТИВНОЙ ЛЕКСИКИ: НАЗВАНИЯ МЕСЯЦЕВ
THE AESTHETIC POTENTIAL OF THE NOMINATIVE LANGUAGE: MONTHS NAMES

Author(s): Galina Syritsa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: month name; aesthetic potential; metaphor; opposition; personification

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the names of months and the peculiarities of their functioning in fiction and first of all in the poetic discourse. The aesthetic potential of the names of the months is rather high. The presence of archaic names of months allows to create oppositions at the level of modern and old names. In the poetic discourse, metonymies and metaphors with the use of names of months are often found. Metonymic transfers are based on models „the month name – the season“, „the month name – the certain event“ and others. Metaphors, built on the opposition of month names actualize nuclear implicational semes which reflect the most typical features of a month, and thus, a steady connotative background accumulates. One month is opposed to another on the basis of the semantic actualization “cold/warm”, but primarily on the basis of associative evaluation semes „better/worse“. Personification reflects the characteristic features of the month, actualizing the category of gender. This group of vocabulary is involved in occasional word formation.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 86-91
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian