Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian

EMOTIVE SIGNS IN LANGUAGE AND SEMANTIC FUNCTIONING OF DERIVED NOUNS IN RUSSIAN
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
	INTRODUCTION:TOWARD AN INTEGRAL SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
	CHAPTER I. EMOTIVE SIGNS
	1. Emotivity and Expressivity.
	2. The Content of the Concept of "Emotivity" and the Range of its Application.
	3. Emotivity and the Question of Linguistic Level.
	4. Typical Emotive Signs of Various Levels.
	5. The Emotive Sign: Definition and Basic Typology.
	6. Utterances with Emotive Dominants.
	NOTES
	CHAPTER II. DERIVED SUBSTANTIVES WITH EMOTIVE MEANING
	1. Emotive vs. Evaluative Components.
	2. The Semantic Character of the Base Stem.
	3. The Influence of Onomasiological Categories.
	4. The Semantic Character of the Suffixes Taking Part in the Derivation of Emotive Nouns.
	NOTES
	CHAPTER III STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DIMINUTIVES
	1. Semantic Properties of Diminutives.
		1.1. Polysemous Character.
	1.2. The Structure of Meaning of Diminutives.
	2. Classification of the Diminutive Suffixes.
	2.1. Semantically Ambivalent Diminutive Suffixes.
	2.2. Meliorative Diminutive Suffixes.
	2.3. Pejorative Diminutive Suffixes.
	2.3.1. Two-morphemic Productive Compound Suffixes.
	2.3.2. The Three-morphemic Compound Suffix.
	2.4. Ambivalent and Non-ambivalent Suffixes: General Characteristics.
	3. Structural Oppositions of Diminutive Derivatives: Gradation.
	3.1. Emotive and Quantitative Components.
		3.2. Gradation.
	3.3. Suffixes from the Point of View of Oppositions of Derivatives.
	3.4. Pejorative Suffixes.
	3.5. Conditions for the Formation of the Indeterminate Degree.
	4. Positive vs. Negative Emotive Component in Diminutive Derivatives.
	NOTES
	CHAPTER IV. SEMANTIC AND CONTEXTUAL FUNCTIONING OF DIMINUTIVES
	1. Structure of the Emotive Meaning of Diminutives.
	2. Semantic Function of the Suffix.
	3. Semantic Functions of the Base. Diminutive Derivatives as Lexemes.
	3.1. Neutral Bases with Quantifiable Denotata.
	3.2. Neutral Bases with Unquantifiable Denotata.
	3.3. Marked Bases.
	3.4. Lexicalized Diminutives.
	4. Role of the Context.
		4.1. Partial Context.
	5. Conclusions. Semiotic Typology of Diminutives.
	NOTES
	CHAPTER V. PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF DIMINUTIVES
	1. Introduction: Questions to Be Posed.
	2. The Synthetic Type.
	3. The Analytical Type.
	4. The Combined Type.
	4.1. The Secondary Stimulus is the Addressee.
	4.2. The Secondary Stimulus is Another Object of the Utterance.
	5. Conclusions.
	CHAPTER VI. SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF DERIVED SUBSTANTIVES
	1. Introduction: Questions to Be Posed.
	2. Modificational Derivatives
	2.1. Diminutives.
	2.2. Augmentatives.
	2.3. Emotive Modifcational Derivatives with No Regular Supportive Semantic Components.
	2.4. Modificational Categories with Marginal Emotive Components.
	3. Mutative Derivatives.
	3.1. Desubstantival Derivatives (Names of Persons).
	3.2. Derivatives from Nominal, Verbal, Adverbial Phrases and Adverbs (Names of Persons).
	3.3. Deverbal Derivatives (Names of Persons).
	3.4. Deadjectival Derivatives (Names of Persons).
	4. Conclusions.
	NOTES
	CHAPTER VII. TYPOLOGY OF EMOTIVE SIGNS
	1. Introduction: The Concept of Emotive Sign.
	2. Symbolic Indices.
	3. Pure Indices.
	4. Types of Symbolic Indices.
	5. Conclusions.
	CHAPTER VIII. EMOTIVE SEMANTICS
	1. Emotive Language vs. Emotive Discourse; Functions
	2. Typology of Emotive Meanings.
	3. Potentiality of Emotive Signs.
	NOTES
	CONCLUSIONS - PERSPECTIVES
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