Open AccessSemantics of the emotive nouns in the mature novels by F.M. Dostoevsky
Author(s) -
Anastasia O. Shatokhina,
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Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.17223/978-5-907442-19-1-2021-103
Subject(s) - emotive , interpretation (philosophy) , semantics (computer science) , noun , linguistics , meaning (existential) , lexicology , lexical semantics , computer science , natural language processing , psychology , philosophy , lexical item , epistemology , programming language
The report focuses on the semantics of such emotive nouns as “fever” (goriachka), “delirium” (bred) and “febrility” (likhoradka) in the mature novels by F.M. Dostoevsky. The author’s interpretation of the mentioned lexical units is elicited, their role in formation of the characters’ psychological portraits and the meaning of the text as a whole is described.