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Balabanova N.V. [Frequency characteristics of features of the semantic space of the English social verbal lexicon with the semantic component «Education»] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2023, Vol. 14, No. 3. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/25FLSK323.pdf (in Russian).

Frequency characteristics of features of the semantic space of the English social verbal lexicon with the semantic component «Education»

Balabanova Natalja Vladislavovna
Smolensk State University, Smolensk, Russia
E-mail: andrewwin@yandex.ru

Abstract. In our work, the purpose of the research is the semantic structure of verbs with social meanings and with the semantic component «Education». A sample of verbs was made in the amount of 65 units. This is due to the fact that this area is quite narrowly focused and therefore not numerous. The social process from semantic point of view is a more complicated type than other processes, since its semantic structure includes obligatory participants of this process, which are called actants in the terminology of the verb-centric theory. Four main components of the social situation are defined: three of them are actant ones («subject of the process», «object of the process», «adject of the process») and one component is «processual», implying realization of social impact without an explicit reference to one of the actants. These semantic subclasses represent «categorical» characteristics of verbs with a social meaning. In addition to them, «criterial» semantic features are highlighted, which can be divided into two subclasses. The first one is a group of «situational» semantic characteristics, which includes features that identify the correlation between simple situations within the complex one: «temporal», «theleological» and «motivational» plans. Under the «semantic plan» a generalized semantic category, which is implemented through the opposition of at least two specific semantic features is meant. The features that consider the correlation between actants situation are called «interactant» ones, including features of «interactive», «hierarchical» and «axiological» semantic plans. Thus, we have identified relevant and irrelevant features of social verbs with the semantic component «Education». In the future, it is planned to make a frequency analysis of procedural nouns with the semantic component «Education» using the same methodology.

Keywords: a verb; a semantic structure; education; an actant; semantic characteristics

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