TY - BOOK ID - 72282153 TI - Emotive signs in language and semantic functioning of derived nouns in Russian PY - 1987 SN - 9027215294 9786613328410 1283328410 9027278911 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Russian language KW - Noun KW - Diminutives KW - Semantics KW - Emotive (Linguistics) KW - Affective meaning (Linguistics) KW - Emotive meaning (Linguistics) KW - Connotation (Linguistics) KW - Slavic languages, Eastern KW - Semantics. KW - Diminutives. KW - Noun. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:72282153 AB - This monograph is intended as a contribution to the integral description of language and verbal communication. Chapter I and Chapters VII and VIII are concerned with general problems of emotivity and expressivity in language as such and on all linguistic levels. These chapters describe emotivity from a new semiotic perspective and suggest a typology of emotive signs and meanings. Chapter II discusses general methodology of investigating and "measuring" emotive meaning in the area of word-formation (with examples from Russian). Chapters III, IV and V treat Russian diminutives fromgeneral-structural, lexical-contextual and pragmatic perspectives, while Chapter VI presents a comparison of the semantic structures of the various types of emotive noun derivatives which exist in Russian. The book thus begins with a general treatment on emotivity, goes on to consider the specific case of emotive noun-formation, giving special attention to the Russian diminutives, and then returns, by way of a comparison of the semantic structures of various types of emotive nouns, to more general problems of emotivity in language and to semiotic typology. ER -