Semantics of inexpressible in modern humanitarian
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Семантика невыразимого в современных гуманитарных изысканиях
Semantics of inexpressible in modern humanitarian researches

Author(s): Marina Mihajlova
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: functional and semantic category; semantics of inexpressible; apophatism; apophatika; negation; non-words; category of denial; ecphrasis; linguopoetics;

Summary/Abstract: The article contains a short review of semantics of inexpressible representation in modern research, the philosophical and methodological bases of studying inexpressible are designated. In the article the grammatical core of semantics of inexpressible is defined as a category of denial (negation). Semantics of inexpressible is compared with other adjacent concepts (apophatism, phenomenon of inexpressible in an ecphrasis, poetics and methodology of romanticism). The main directions of studying inexpressible in literary criticism are defined and characterized. The linguistic paradigms in which the semantics of inexpressible is studied are mentioned: linguopoetic, cognitological, ethnolinguistic, structural-semantic in Russian linguistics (V. V. Babaytseva school). Asymmetry in hierarchy of functional and semantic category of inexpressible and active transmission media of the called semantics are shown in fiction.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 57-65
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian