The size in the light of normative evaluation (On materials in Russian language) Cover Image

Размерът през призмата на нормативната оценка (Върху материал от руския език)
The size in the light of normative evaluation (On materials in Russian language)

Author(s): Stefka Petkova-Kaleva
Subject(s): Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: semantic category; size; norm

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the semantic category 'size- dimension', on the specifics of absolute and relative linguistic size and, in particular, the linguistic interpretation of the size in the light of normative evaluation. Linguistic structures interpret the size of the objects in relation to four different kinds of norms: the norm of kind (the average standard in the representation of the size feature), the situational norm, the norm of proportionality and the norm of expectation. Each one of these norms has its own linguistic representation. The object of description and analysis in the present paper are the structures reflecting the size with respect to the situational norm, the norm of proportionality and the norm of expectation in Russian language.