Idiomatic Space of Anthroposemic Substantival Bahuvrihi with a Zoonym Component and its Semantic Modelling in Modern English

Mariia Shutova; Yaroslava Gnezdilova; Halyna Minchak; Svitlana Talko

doi:10.33919/esnbu.24.2.10

Authors

Mariia Shutova Kyiv National Linguistic University
Yaroslava Gnezdilova Kyiv National Linguistic University
Halyna Minchak Kyiv National Linguistic University
Svitlana Talko Independent Researcher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.24.2.10

Keywords:

nominative space, idiomatic formations, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, positive connotation, negative connotation

Abstract

The article considers the versatility in perception of a person’s appearance and streaks of character through the phenomenon of bakhuvrihi with a zoonym component according to conceptual pattern: OBJECT (ZOONYM) → HUMAN / PART OF THE HUMAN BODY, where ZOONYM acts as a conception referred to by a word, and HUMAN / PART OF THE HUMAN BODY – a conception recognized as a target. This study focuses upon the new integrated approach to the anthroposemic substantival bahuvrihi with a zoonym component in the cognitive and semantic perspectives. The choice of such bahuvrihi is justified by the fact that the "zoonym-words" are perhaps the most proliferous lexical source of the items with positive / negative connotation, firmly based on traditions in specific cultural contexts and are traces of mythical thinking. Idiomatic space of anthroposemic substantival bahuvrihi with a zoonym component appears to be a complex structure of knowledge about humankind in biological, mental and social dimensions.

Author Biographies

Mariia Shutova, Kyiv National Linguistic University

Mariia Shutova, Doctor of Philological Sciences, is Professor at Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine. Her scientific interests comprise contrastive studies, cognitive studies, ethnolinguistics, public communication, social linguistics. She conducts classes in Contrastive and Historic Linguistics, and Theoretical Grammar of the English language.

Yaroslava Gnezdilova, Kyiv National Linguistic University

Yaroslava Gnezdilova, Doctor of Philological Sciences, is Assistant Professor at Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine. Her scientific interests comprise (meta)pragmatics, discourse studies, rhetoric, public communication, speech manipulation, persuasion, emotiology. She teaches Academic English and Rhetoric of Scientific Communication, Metapragmatics, and Speech Manipulation in Everyday Discourse.

Halyna Minchak, Kyiv National Linguistic University

Halyna Minchak, Candidate of Philological Sciences, is Assistant Professor at Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine. Her scientific interests comprise lexical semantics, political discourse, artistic discourse, communicative deviatology. She teaches modern Ukrainian language, typology of errors, communicative discourse in educational activities and the basics of communicative deviatology.

Svitlana Talko, Independent Researcher

Svitlana Talko, Candidate of Philological Sciences, was Associate Professor at the Department of the English Language and Translation, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine (1999-2022). Her scientific interests lie in the field of pragmatics, sociolinguistic, cognitive and typological studies. Currently, she is an independent researcher.

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