Semantic Primes of Perception from the Perspective of Word Formation

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2018-1-0113
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Anna Zaslonkina
Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

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The object of the present study is the domain of Greimassian semiotic theory. Several previous findings on supraindividual phenomena were summarized and theoretical underpinnings of the soi-disant thymic category were extended. Investigation of such an object discloses the relation between the experiential (which approximates sensational) and cognitive nature of perception. Whereas conceptual universals that bear the information on feelings, senses and emotions as those inherent in the corporal framework and correspond to the basic level of categorization have already been demonstrated, their iconic efficiency in terms of Piercian semiotics is still unclear. Therefore, the aim of the current analysis is to clarify structural-semantic links between derived and root words constituting the thymic lexical corpus of modern English. This paper emphasizes the importance of understanding how the motivational means conditioned by the classification of associative-figurative and evaluative features of the conceptual triad SENSE: FEELING: EMOTION are exteriorised within the thymic category. These characteristics can be developed and enhanced through the iconic reflection of the correlation between the native speakers’ evaluation of the sign acting as a motivator and expressive as well as gnoseological functions of perception.

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Zaslonkina, A. “Semantic Primes of Perception from the Perspective of Word Formation”. Linguaculture, vol. 9, no. 1, June 2018, pp. 55-68, doi:10.47743/lincu-2018-1-0113.
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Anna Zaslonkina, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

Anna Zaslonkina is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine. She obtained her PhD in 2015 with a thesis entitled English Thymic Lexis as the Objectifier of Concepts SENSE: FEELING: EMOTION (in Ukrainian). During the last twelve years she has worked on a variety of courses including Cognitive Linguistics, Semiotics, and Translation Studies. Her primary area of scholarly research is the anthropocentric paradigm centered on the categories of observer and observable, where/ the human organism is viewed as a holistic basis for construing divergent phenomena of perception. This linguistic principle was reflected in a number of her publications among which Performance of Perception: the Semiotics of the Sensible and Beyond (2017), a description of the cognitive mechanisms determining the arrangement of morphological parameters of the thymic verbs, The Conceptual Outline of Perception in Terms of Greimassian Semiotic Theory (2018), an extension of the previous research in the area examining collocability patterns of the thymic category members.

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