SEMANTIC TRANSFORMATION OF THE «BLISS» LEXEME IN RUSSIAN SPEECH

The article studies the dictionary meanings of the lexeme "bliss" on the material taken from the explanatory dictionaries of Vladimir Dal, Dmitry Ushakov, the Great Academic Dictionary and the Small Academic Dictionary, as well as the Russian Semantic Dictionary. The article highlights the process of semantic transformation of the word "bliss" over time, as well as semantic transformation of this lexeme in the predicative function, the dynamics of the appearance of the proper estimation value in the content of the "bliss" lexeme, use of the actual value in the content of this lexeme on the basis of the main sub-corpus of the National Corpus of the Russian language. The material of the main subcorpus of the National Corps of the Russian language has been examined in detail, the statistics of the analyzed word is given. On the basis of this material, a component analysis of the meaning and meanings of the lexeme "bliss" as a noun with an appraising character typical of the predicative use of the named noun is performed. By means of component analysis of the lexical unit with a positivevalue meaning, the frequency of use as an evaluation predicate is defined, the lexical-thematic groups "objects", "phenomena", "states" and "processes" are presented, in which the lexeme "bliss" functions as a predicate. The novelty of the article is that, as a result of the research, the specificity of the component composition of the meaning of the lexeme is revealed, and it is also established that the noun "bliss" expresses communicative intentions of the interlocutors that are associated with their pragmatic attitudes actualized when addressing different types of context.

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