doi:10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.2

ANALYSIS OF THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS OF THE WORD “SUCCESS” IN RUSSIAN: A COGNITIVE ASPECT

Research article

Eremina M. A.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.2

Issue: № 1 (29), 2022

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Eremina M. A.

Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Ural State University of Railway Transport, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Abstract

The proposed article is a continuation of the study of the problem of verification of linguistic and cultural constructions associated with the analysis of the culturally significant concept of success. The main objective of the article is to apply in practice the author's methodological considerations regarding the possibilities and limitations of definitional analysis and to demonstrate the interpretive potential of analyzing the dictionary definitions of the word success in Russian language in a cognitive way. The material for the analysis was the dictionary definitions of the word success in explanatory dictionaries of the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet eras, which clearly demonstrate the variation in the semantic representation of the lexeme success. The analysis is based on a comparison of lexicographic descriptions and is aimed at identifying the semantic structure of a word. The semantic description is considered as an information base for interpretation from the point of view of the characteristics of perception and understanding of the socio-cultural phenomenon of success. As a result of the semantic description and cognitive interpretation of each lexical-semantic variant, the invariant meaning of the word is reconstructed and described in a narrative form. It is a cognitive model of a high degree of abstraction, which has a prototypical effect, that is, it connects the entire network of system-linguistic meanings of a word and underlies context-based and personal-associative word usage. The article also pays attention to the verification of the results of the definitional analysis of the lexeme success through a systematic methodological approach, the essence of which is to establish general semantic patterns at different stages of the complex semantic analysis of the concept.

Keywords:

lexical semantics, cognitive approach, definitional analysis, analysis of vocabulary definitions, success.

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