ЭВОЛЮЦИЯ СЛОВООБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОГО ПОЛЯ КОНЦЕПТА «ГНЕВ» В РУССКОМ ЛИТЕРАТУРНОМ ЯЗЫКЕ
EVOLUTION OF THE WORD-FORMATION FIELD OF THE CONCEPT ‘ANGER’ [GNEV] IN THE RUSSIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE

Author(s): Irina V. VOTYAKOVA
Subject(s): Russian Literature, Eastern Slavic Languages, Theory of Literature, Stylistics
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: a word-formation field; a family of words; an emotional concept; anger; the Russian language;
Summary/Abstract: The word-formation field is a structured system of the categorical derivational values that reflect cognitive characteristics of the concept. Two microfields are distinguished in the structure of the wordformation field of the emotional concept ‘anger’ [gnev]. They are an ‘Action’ microfield and an ‘Attribute’ one. This is due to the significance of its cognitive characteristics associated with expression of its movement as well as its nature. Other microfields, which are typical for the structure of the word-formative field of this emotional concept, have not received proper derivational development. In general, we can observe a significant reduction in its derivatives. In our opinion, this is due, on the one hand, to the universalization tendency and to some simplification in perception of the emotional state which comes down to a semantic triad: ‘to experience an emotion or a state’ – ‘to bring someone to the given emotion or state’- ‘to get oneself into the given emotion or state’. In modern Russian the most common derivatives have a more generalized meaning by co-opting the semantics of the obsolete derivatives. On the other hand, the decrease in the number of the words used in speech can be ascribed to the development of a complex interaction with synonyms that are members of other families of words.

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