Ugliness as a Prototype Category: Cognitive-and-Semantic Analysis
- Authors: Mudrovskaya A.M.1, Temirgazina Z.K.2, Aselderova R.O.3
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Affiliations:
- Karaganda University n.a. Buketov
- Pavlodar Pedagogical University
- Dagestanskiy State Pedagogical Universit
- Issue: Vol 15, No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 78-91
- Section: COGNITIVE RESEARCH
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2313-2299/article/view/323641
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2024-15-1-78-91
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/DGSBER
- ID: 323641
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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.
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Anastasia M. Mudrovskaya
Karaganda University n.a. Buketov
Email: miss_nastena@list.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5412-9243
SPIN-code: 1177-1874
Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology
28, Universitetskaya Str., Karaganda, Republic of Kazakhstan, 100024Zifa K. Temirgazina
Pavlodar Pedagogical University
Author for correspondence.
Email: zifakakbaevna@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3399-7364
SPIN-code: 5217-4225
D.Sc. (Philology), Full Professor, Higher School of Humanities
60, Mira st., Pavlodar, Republic of Kazakhstan, 140003Rumaniyat O. Aselderova
Dagestanskiy State Pedagogical Universit
Email: rumomarovna@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4261-6703
Scopus Author ID: 57813347200
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of General Linguistics, Faculty of Philology
57, yaragskogo St., Makhachkala, Russian Federation, 367003References
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