Diminutive Models
This paper presents the pragmatic sense of subjective evaluation expressed by a diminutive
suffix attached to the names of the exact time intervals (minute, godzinka, sedmichka and others)
in Russian, Bulgarian and Polish. For detecting actualized meanings, we use the procedure
of contextual analysis and analysis of translational correspondences. The basic and Parallel Russian-
Bulgarian and Russian-Polish Subcorpora of Russian National Corpus served as the main
source of data. The author describes the variants of the subjective-evaluative meanings expressed
by different types of units in the three languages and reveals the contextual conditions for the
actualization of revealed meanings. Diminutive names of exact time periods refer to three types
of values: 1) the subjective attitude of the speaker to the time interval as minor, small, and the
implied positive emotion, 2) the positive attitude of the speaker to events and situations that occur
at this time; the derivative does not express the value «small» and is highly context-dependent;
3) the attitude of the speaker to the situation as a whole; the diminutive does not express the value
«small», but functions a means of naming the expression in the sentence as a whole. The present
research made it possible to conclude that the differences between the three languages manifest
themselves in the absence of certain diminutive derivatives, the extent of their functional activity
in terms particular pragmatic meanings. The names of small periods of time in all of the languages
actualize only the subjectively-dimensional value. The names of large time intervals are
characterized by a wide range of evaluation and expressive meanings. Сomplex meanings of diminutives
are expressed during interaction with the semantics of syntactic constructions and lexemes
of the sentence in compared languages.
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Diminutive Models // Сибирский филологический журнал. 2017. № 3. Pp. 161–173. DOI: 10.17223/18137083/60/14.