Ugliness as a Prototype Category: Cognitive-and-Semantic Analysis
Mudrovskaya A.M. Temirgazina Z.K. Aselderova R.O.
2024Peoples Friendship University of Russia
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
2024#15Issue 178 - 91 pp.
The study proposes a cognitive-and-semantic approach to the study of the category ‘urodstvo’ (‘ugliness’). This approach allowed, using a component analysis of the meanings of words — denote main lexical representatives of the category of ugliness in the Russian language, and establish a set of features of the category relevant to the basic level. Several prototypical features of ugliness have been identified: ‘the carrier of the feature is a living organism (human, animal, plant)’; ‘abnormality in the structure’; ‘innate abnormality’; ‘its physical (anatomical) character’. An exemplary representative of a category has all the prototypical features in contrast to non-exemplary representatives. Blurring of prototypical features in non-ideal representatives of the category is carried out in the process of development and expansion of the semantics of the words urodstvo (‘ugliness’), bezobraziye (‘deformity’), nekrassivost’ (‘unattractiveness’) in Russian.
categorization , component analysis , deformity , prototype , ugliness , unattractiveness
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Department of Russian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology, Karaganda University named after Buketov, 28, Universitetskaya Str., Karaganda, 100024, Kazakhstan
Higher School of Humanities, Pavlodar Pedagogical University, 60, Mira st., Pavlodar, 140003, Kazakhstan
Department of General Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Dagestan State Pedagogical University, 57, Yaragskogo St., Makhachkala, 367003, Russian Federation
Department of Russian Language and Literature
Higher School of Humanities
Department of General Linguistics
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