Irina I. Chumak-Zhun

Professor, Doctor of Science (Philology), Head of the Department of Russian Language and Russian Literature

Belgorod State National Research University

(Belgorod, Russia)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22405/2712-8407-2023-3-125-134

Abstract. The article presents the interpretation of the ours-others dichotomy in the aspect of its conceptual content on the material of the Big explanatory dictionary "Proverbs and sayings of the Russian people" by V. I. Zimin and A. S. Spirin The paremiological representation of ours / others is considered as a way of embodying a naive picture of the world. ours-others are pronominal outcomes, the high abstractness of the meaning of which, with changing specific content, makes it possible to see many features of national consciousness. The paremias presented in the dictionary indicate the anthropogenic nature of this phenomenon. The basis for the formation of the internal form of the opposition of oursothers is deixis, and depending on the part-of-speech belonging, the deictic vector of semantics forms the corresponding fragments of the worldview in different ways. The realization of the cognitive potential of deictic units is clearly presented in the lexicographic source. Thus, the dictionary data confirm that the substantive ours in the idiom our people presupposes specific denotations. In the pronominal dichotomy ours-others, the relationship between oppositional units manifests itself first. The analysis of the «paremiological content» of the chapters gives the reader the opportunity to fill each of the titles with specific meanings that go back to the concepts of the material and spiritual world. The article proves the presence of all the components of the opposition (mine, yours, his and his) in the idea of his and their potential ability to be actualized depending on the context of the use of correlation. Ours-others is the conceptual base of the dictionary, while these deictic markers build an entire paradigmatic «axis» based on two deixis vectors as the «skeletons» of semantics.
Keywords: deixis, paremia, lexicography, national consciousness, opposition of ours-others.

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For citation: Chumak-Zhun, II 2023, ‘Deixis as a Reflection of a Naive Worldview in a Lexicographic Source (Based on the Explanatory Dictionary «The Proverbs and Sayings of the Russian People» by V. I. Zimin and A. S. Spirin)’, Tula Scientific Bulletin. History. Linguistics, issue 3 (15), pp. 125–134, http://doi.org/10.22405/2712-8407-2023-3-125-134 (in Russ.)

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