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вопросу об универсальности языковых знаков
To the question of universality of linguistic signs

Author(s): Ludmila Pietrowna Lobkovskaya
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Economy, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Menedżerskiej w Warszawie
Keywords: borrowings; international words; semantic universals; fundamental concepts; archisemes; primitives; universal

Summary/Abstract: The author considers international words as universal conceptual meanings or universal linguocultural concepts and describes foreign linguistic theories relating to the units of this type. It is demonstrated that the idea of Anna Wierzbicka about development of the universal metalanguage formed of fundamental concepts and clear to all people in the world is very important for the analysis of international words. It is stated, that for this purpose it is necessary to reveal the system of archisemes/primitives.

  • Issue Year: 8/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 61-64
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Russian