COMPONENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE GROUP OF SYNONYMS OF THE VERB "STARE" AND THEIR ENGLISH TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS Cover Image

КОМПОНЕНЦИЈАЛНА АНАЛИЗА ГРУПЕ СИНОНИМА ГЛАГОЛА "ЗУРИТИ" И ЊИХОВИ ЕНГЛЕСКИ ПРЕВОДНИ ЕКВИВАЛЕНТИ
COMPONENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE GROUP OF SYNONYMS OF THE VERB "STARE" AND THEIR ENGLISH TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS

Author(s): Katarina Subanović
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Translation Studies, Stylistics
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: verb "stare";componential analysis;synonymy;meaning;semantic features

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the componential analysis of the English and Serbian groups of synonyms of the verb stare has been conducted. The main aims of the research are the representation of the groups of synonyms of the verb stare, as well as the emphasis of the diagnostic characteristics on which the examined verbs differ. Eventually, the suggested translations of the verbs have been studied. The main conclusion is that the Serbian language contains fewer verbs belonging to this semantic field. For that reason, most of the synonyms have been defined by a semantically neutral verb (e.g. look) modified by an appropriate adverb or a compound adjective. What is more, the results show that the consulted dictionaries and corpora provide detailed and complete information on this subject.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2020
  • Issue No: 71
  • Page Range: 243-254
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian
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