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Lexical-Grammatical Means of Expressing Oppositivity in an English Literary Text
- Authors: Lunkova L.N.1, Frolova J.I.2
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Affiliations:
- State University of Social Studies and Humanities
- High Comprehensive School Number 18
- Issue: Vol 12, No 3 (2021): Linguistic dominants of grammar and lexics
- Pages: 758-773
- Section: DISCOURSIVE PRACTICES AND TEXT ANALYSIS
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/27571
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2021-12-3-758-773
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The article considers the notional nature and peculiarities of genus-species relations between the phenomena of opposition and oppositivity ; it also deals with the lexical-and-grammatica ways of expressing the latter in an English literary text. The study establishes that, besides the logical component, an opposition also expresses a subjective one, manifesting a communicant’s unique view on the communicative situation and thus displaying semantics of oppositivity. Unlike spatial, logical and grammatical oppositions, generally characterized by a symmetrical structure, the subjective (oppositive) opposition is asymmetrical. It is revealed that due to the structural asymmetry this kind of opposition is marked by greater semantic potential compared to logical and grammatical oppositions. It is proved that the complication of subjective oppositions with antonymous pairs, lexical and syntactical repetitions, antithetic units, oxymorons etc. extends the scope of meanings implied by them; and the use of subjective (oppositive) oppositions in a literary text themselves becomes an effective tool of contrast-building both on the lexical-grammatical and textual levels.
About the authors
Larisa N. Lunkova
State University of Social Studies and Humanities
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Email: loralu@list.ru
Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Chair of German and Roman languages and their teaching methods
30, Zelyonaya str., Kolomna, Moscow region, Russian Federation, 140410Julia I. Frolova
High Comprehensive School Number 18
Email: juliejulie1903@gmail.com
teacher of foreign languages
7, Yuzhnaya str., Kolomna district, Russia Federation, 140404References
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