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От социологии к оценке
From sociology to evaluation

Author(s): Olga Frolova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Philology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: social stratification; social stratum; figurative meaning; metaphor; evaluation; ambivalence; connotation; Russian national corpus; democratization; image perception

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with figurative meanings of nominations of the social hierarchy relating to the upper, middle and lower strata of Russian society of the 18th and 19th centuries, and their reflection in the explanatory dictionary of the beginning of the 21st century. The use of adjectives, formed from personal nouns in the Russian National Corpus in the period 2000-2017, is analyzed.

  • Issue Year: 44/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 261-270
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian