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Stepanova M.A., Savankova E.V. [Modeling the semantic structure of a word: at the intersection of language and law (based on the German lexeme «Diktatfrieden»)] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2023, Vol. 14, No. 4. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/20FLSK423.pdf (in Russian).

Modeling the semantic structure of a word: at the intersection of language and law (based on the German lexeme «Diktatfrieden»)

Stepanova Maria Alekseevna
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: m.a.stepanova@inno.mgimo.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1583-7279

Savankova Ekaterina Vladimirovna
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: e.savankova@inno.mgimo.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8568-5499

Abstract. The article presents the contextual meanings of the lexeme «Diktatfrieden» (Russian: «dictator’s world»), identified during the analysis of various examples of the use of this lexeme and its lexical equivalents using the method of describing qualia-structure (Qualia-Structure), proposed by J. Pusteyovsky. The identified attributes of the qualia structure — formal, constitutive, telic and agentive — are represented by a number of meanings, some of which are reflected in definitions in authentic explanatory dictionaries of the German language, the rest were identified in the context and constitute a peripheral zone in relation to the core of dictionary definitions. This method of description was used for the first time to analyze German composites and made it possible to establish additional meanings that influence the formation of political discourse. Peripheral meanings are not specifically occasional, but they manifest the implementation of a certain scenario or propaganda, form public opinion due to the inflationary use of this lexeme in the media and the creation of information tension. As a result of the analysis, in particular, such semes as «dangerous», «contrary to the meaning», «unacceptable», «scenario» were identified, associated with the absence of a corresponding legal denotation, that is, an event or fact of a contract confirming the origin (agentive attribute) of this phenomenon. At the intersection of cognitive linguistics and legal linguistics, the manipulation of meaning in order to put pressure on public opinion by constructing false presuppositions seems to be an arbitrary or intentional cognitive distortion, a phenomenon close to the spread of fakes and can be considered as a legal phenomenon if, as a result of the publication of a conflict-generating text, damage has been caused to the interests of one of the parties.

Keywords: qualia-structure; compound word; semantic field; concept; context; legal linguistics; political discourse

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