doi:10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.43

SEMANTIC BORROWINGS (A STUDY OF CHINESE BORROWINGS OF THE SENSORY-PERCEPTUAL CATEGORY)

Research article

Nurutdinova A. R.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.43

Issue: № 1 (29), 2022

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Nurutdinova A. R.

Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

Abstract

Sensory-perceptual semantic borrowing of vocabulary is a vague category located in the center of two separate and opposite poles of classification. Semantic borrowings have been noted in linguistic history for a long time; however, previous studies have not focused on cognitive aspects. Many words formed by this method were considered "invented". The lexical gap is the reason for the production of numerous new concepts that have appeared as "symptoms" of social and cultural progress. The absence of appropriate words and expressions in the writing system of the Chinese language forms a lexical gap that needs semantic borrowing of new words and new concepts, including the "exotic" ones. This gap is filled with borrowed words and meanings produced by the root components. It should be noted that the definition of a category and the choice of a suitable feature belong to the stages of word formation in modern Chinese. Therefore, the following question arises: how is sensory-perceptual semantic borrowing associated with cognitive semantics used in modern Chinese?

Keywords:

borrowed vocabulary, chinese language, cognitive semantics, borrowed words, foreign elements, recipient language.

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