Cognitive-Semantic Analysis of Linguistic Objectifications of Possessive Situations in Russian, English, German
| Наименование публикации | Cognitive-Semantic Analysis of Linguistic Objectifications of Possessive Situations in Russian, English, German |
| Тип публикации | Статья |
| Библиографическое описание | Cognitive-Semantic Analysis of Linguistic Objectifications of Possessive Situations in Russian, English, German |
| Аннотация | In this article, possessivity is considered to be a linguistic way of integrating an object (thing) into a relation, connected, first of all, with the idea of owning, wealth and property. Owning a thing is one of the most important concepts regulating social relations. The grounds on which a thing belongs to its holder, in various legal and cultural traditions, often serve as justification of the material advantage and the manifestation of privileges. The relations of possessivity aimed at holding the object in the subject’s sphere are proposed to be constructed in the form of cognitive models, the content of which is the multidirectional process, which is reflected in the semantics of linguistic units and has lingua-cultural specifics. The article proposes cognitive models of possessive relations and describes the language tools representing the structural components of the constructed cognitive models. The relevance of various characteristics to the compared languages and cultures based on the comprehensive analysis of verbalization of the structural components of these models has been identified in this work. 1 Introduction Possessivity, being a social phenomenon expressed by language means, is primary associated with ownership of wealth, including individually owned items (such as land, houses) or financial assets (fortune, capital), as well as such aspects of human wellbeing as health, dignity, respect and reputation, etc. The attitudes towards the ways of using wealth (varying from losing, flaunting it, making lavish spending on pleasures and almsgiving, squandering it in the most demonstrative way to manifest the status inequality or on the contrary thrift and sound use of it up to emphatic modesty and excessive parsimony) differ among classes and cultures and act as a source of behavioral models encouraged or condemned and mocked at in ethnic literature traditions. A possessed item, performing a socio-representative function, can act as the bearer of meta-communicative messages about its holder (owner) in his/her tie with it and his/her way to use this item as wealth, directed to its proper keeping, saving and accumulating, or squandering and wasting. |
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| Год публикации | 2018 |
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