Open AccessA Brief Outlook at the Research Directions of Motivology, a New Linguistic Discipline
Author(s) -
Angela Savin-Zgardan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
philologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-3717
pISSN - 1857-4300
DOI - 10.52505/1857-4300.2021.3(315).05
Subject(s) - lexis , romanian , linguistics , phenomenon , universality (dynamical systems) , psychology , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
In this article the author, for the first time in Romanian linguistics, attempts to explain the basic directions in studying a new linguistic discipline, Motivology, and the use of terms characteristic of this new discipline, some of which are translated or updated by the author in order that the former cold be introduced into the Romanian linguistic circulation. The motivational relationships of words and stable polylexical units make up linguistic universality; they cover almost all lexical and polylexical units in language, leaving out of their "influence" an insignificant percentage of "singular" language units. Motivology as a science dates back to the 1970s. This study outlines the research areas on lexical and structural motivation, the internal form of the glottic unit, the types of motivation of lexical and polylexical units, motivational relationships as a type of systemic relationships in lexis, motivation in a text and metatext, motivational paradigm, motivation of words and stable polylexical units as a lexical phenomenon, etc.