A database of pragmatically marked lexical items of the Russian language: the content, principles of description, and possibility of using Cover Image

База данных прагматически маркированной лексики русского языка: материал, принципы описания, возможности использования
A database of pragmatically marked lexical items of the Russian language: the content, principles of description, and possibility of using

Author(s): Elena Yurievna Bulygina, Tatiana Alexandrovna Tripolskaya
Subject(s): Cognitive linguistics, Computational linguistics, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Новосибирский государственный педагогический университет
Keywords: Pragmatic macrocomponent; dynamic processes; Russian pragmatically marked lexicon database

Summary/Abstract: Among the most significant current issues in the field of structural, systematic and communicative description of lexical meanings are identifying pragmatically marked lexical items, classification of various micro-components comprising the larger structure of the pragmatic macro-component within the lexical meaning, and examining their communicative potential. The solution of these theoretical problems is considered as a necessary condition of creating ap-propriate models for lexicographic description and typology of Pragmatically Marked Lexicon within active type dictionaries or/ and in special computer databases.In the present project the attention is drawn to such essential problems of Pragmatic Semantics as the “speaker – language sign” interrelations. The problem that demands a combined systematic, structural and communicative approach is description of lexical meanings. There are certain pragmatically marked elements of human lexicon that should be revealed and de-scribed systematically. The project explores the integral model of lexical meaning, including pragmatic macro components; describes the structure, content, variable potential and implementation of pragmatic semantics in different types of discourse; analyzes the ways how pragmatic semantics can be lexicographically presented in dictionaries of different types; develops the concept of lexico-graphical interpretation of pragmatically labeled items within the Russian lexical system.The applied component of the project is creating a computer database of pragmatically marked vocabulary, available for a wide range of users: researchers, linguistic experts, inter-preters and teachers of the Russian language. The described computer database of pragmatically marked vocabulary is based on the Russian and international experience in corpus and computational linguistics.