Russian Official Reflection in Russian Language Winged Units

Svetlana Anokhina,Natalia Pozdnyakova,Ekaterina Tulina,Natalia Kozko,S Cindori,O Larouk,E.Yu Malushko,L.N Rebrina,N.L Shamne

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20185001002

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Abstract

The article analyzes functioning of winged units nominating officials in literary and publicistic texts included in the Russian National Corpus. The authors consider that every winged phrase is a combination of mental ideas of the nation. Thus, winged units are important concepts verbalisators though they are found at the semantic field periphery. The article brings out the differences in the usage of winged units with the common seme “official” in texts by native Russian speakers which allows to reconstruct the image of an official existing in the Russian linguistic picture of the world. Most units can be found at the periphery of the semantic field and thus cannot claim to be universal in nominating officials because of low frequency of their use. The most universal nominations for officials are the following ones: Derzhimorda, Kuvshinnoe rylo, Schvonder, Sergeant Prishibeyev, Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, that can be related to the near periphery of the concept “Official” field verbalisators. The analysis of winged units’ meanings with the seme “official” allows specifying ideas of an official in the Russian linguistic picture of the world: the majority of the winged units convey a negative attitude of native speakers to officials.

Highlights

Winged units of the Russian language are important concepts’ verbalisators though they are at the semantic field periphery
National corpuses give a rich material for numerous linguistic researches in different spheres [4,5,6] and others
That’s why arhivnye yunoshi, Molchalin, Ugryum-Burcheev, prozasedavshiesya were referred to the far periphery of the concept field verbalisators because of low frequency of their use as WUs with the seme “official”

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Introduction

Winged units (hereafter WUs) of the Russian language are important concepts’ verbalisators though they are at the semantic field periphery. All of them - Akakys Akakievich, arhivnye yunoshi, Derzhimordas, Kuvshinnoe rylos, Molchalins, Prozasedavshiesya, Ugryum-Burcheevs, Sergeants Prishibeyev, Sсhvonders are officials but they differ in their personality, behavior and attitude to work (which found reflection in vocabulary definitions of WUs) and in the sphere of activities. When comparing the frequency of WUs use we must take into consideration that the search query in RNC gives contexts of the analyzed units use without considering all their meanings, in other words, not in all cases we deal with WUs. That’s why arhivnye yunoshi, Molchalin, Ugryum-Burcheev, prozasedavshiesya were referred to the far periphery of the concept field verbalisators because of low frequency of their use as WUs with the seme “official”. It allows us to relate WU Derzhimorda as well as Kuvshinnoe rylo, Schvonder Sergeant Prishibeev and Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin to the near periphery of the concept “Official” field verbalisators Different concepts where these WUs are used illustrate certain trends in nominating officials. It happens on all continents, in all types of governmental institutions and political funds, in all spheres of public administration throughout all periods of the human civilization development [11]

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