Distinguishing between Animals and Other Living Beings in the Russian Linguistic Worldview

 
PIIS0373658X0004301-0-1
DOI10.31857/S0373658X0004301-0
Publication type Article
Status Published
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Affiliation: Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Journal nameVoprosy Jazykoznanija
EditionIssue 2
Pages31-46
Abstract

This paper analyzes the differences between the scientific and naïve language classification of living beings presented in the everyday Russian language. In particular, the paper discusses the boundary separating animals from other creatures in the Russian linguistic worldview. The author investigates the semantics of zoonyms životnoe ‘animal’, živnost’ ‘livestock’, xiščnik ‘predator’, xiščnyj ‘predatory’ and their use in everyday language and in scientific language.

Keywordslexicography, lexicon, naïve worldview, semantics, zoonyms
AcknowledgmentThis paper is supported by the Fundamental research program of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences, project No. 19-012-00291А «Preparation of the fourth edition of the Active dictionary of the Russian language» (2019–2021), and by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 16-29-09614 «Principles and technologies of machine processing for social network texts in Russian».
Received29.04.2019
Publication date05.05.2019
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