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Semantics Within the Mythopoetic Paradigm: Studying Lexical Semantics
- Authors: Tsvetaeva E.N.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 9(903) (2025)
- Pages: 98-104
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/342125
- ID: 342125
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Abstract
The paper considers challenges arising while studying German language semantic processes determined by their relation to myth as a mode of thought and representing a corresponding set of mythologems (concepts and motives). Lexemes as well as phrasemes which articulate such lexemes comprise the data for this study, while the aim of the study is to showcase the capabilities of the mythosemantic approach to lexis description as applied to studies concerned with evolution of polysemy, syntagmatics and paradigmatics. The present study employs historical and etymological analysis as well as comparative approach in order to identify general semantic trends. Contextual analysis gives the opportunity to study the meaning of certain words at certain times throughout history meanwhile corpus analysis enables tracking of lexical change.
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Elena Nikolaevna Tsvetaeva
Moscow State Linguistic University
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Email: elenatsvetaeva@yandex.ru
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of Lexicology and Stylistics of German, Faculty of German
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