Contextual Synonymy: Approaches to Identification and Cognitive Analysis
Abstract
The article reviews the state of modern research on the phenomenon of contextual synonymy (CS), noting the complex systematicity and structure of this phenomenon. At present, there is no complete analysis in this direction. The scientific approaches of various authors to the study of CS are identified: semiotic, linguocognitive, linguostylistic.
In general, the work emphasizes the frame analysis of CS as a type of linguocognitive approach, since the frame visualizes a complex scheme of searching for CS in the text, their interpretation, identifying their common seven, determining the referent of CS, explaining the role of CS in revealing the deep subtext in the content of the text. Particular attention is focused on the attached procedure in the frame, which allows for detailed and visual identification and analysis of all these important factors.
The paradoxical type of context is also considered, from which it is impossible to determine the referent of the CS; in this case, the detection of the CS and the deep subtext of the paradox is clearly determined by frame analysis. It is noted that for the correct decoding of the contextual meanings of words and expressions, it is necessary to establish the type of context by which the meanings are activated. Therefore, the work provides a list and characteristics of the types of context. As a result, another type is added to this list - paradoxical context.
General rules for ordering synonyms according to their distance from the first, nominative synonym are outlined, but this scheme is suitable only for lexical synonyms; for CS, their ordering is possible only through the classification of their referents.
Prospects for the development of this and other works of the chosen direction are the further formation of a general theory of CS, the study of contextual synonymy in different types of context, taking into account their structure and composition. Systematic ordering of the theory of CS requires the involvement of new scientific paradigms - system analysis, the theory of language filters, qualimetry, linguistic synergetics.
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