Development of semantic changes in a phraseological feature nominating a person’s emotional state (based on the material of modern Russian prose)

This work argues the idea of the semantic priority of phraseological units in expressing of the distinctive qualitative, in particular, emotional, characteristics of a person. We make an attempt to describe phraseological units feature that nominate a person’s emotional state, used in the D.I. Rubina’s works. As a result of a large illustrative material analysis of the author’s card index, the units under consideration can realize the semantics of both negative and positive assessment by a person of objects, state, intelligence, facts and events of reality that cause emotions, as well as rejection of something. A sufficient quantitative representation of emotive units in the author’s card index allows us to identify the “buildup of meanings” in the content of the phraseological units. According to F. Brentano, the traditionally drawn border between the external and the internal is conditional not only because there are phenomena that belong to the field of research both natural science, and psychology. It is found that “...not only the physical changes of the physical state are caused, but the mental – the mental ones, but the physical state can also result in the mental, and the mental state – the physical” (Vide: History of Philosophy: Encyclopedia. Available at: http://velikanov.ru/philosophy/brentano.asp/). Thus, the layering of phraseological nominations of characteristic semantics is presented, the nuclear and peripheral meanings of the substantial volume of the analyzed units are determined.

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