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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 50, 2018
The International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Issues of Linguistics and Didactics: The Interdisciplinary Approach in Humanities and Social Sciences” (CILDIAH-2018)
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| Article Number | 01119 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20185001119 | |
| Published online | 12 October 2018 | |
Semantics and Modality of “Strange” (Based on Mystical-Fantastic Russian, English and Spanish Novels)
NCFU, Humanitarian Institute, 355009 Stavropol, Russia
* Corresponding author: la_perla_negra@inbox.ru
The aim of the study is to present semantic diversity of an adjective “strange” in Russian, English and Spanish literary texts. All context examples are taken from world-known mystical-fantastic novels (“Altist Danilov” by V. Orlov, “Falling Angel” by W. Hjortsberg, and “The Club Dumas” by A. Pérez-Reverte) in order to demonstrate individual author’s style in conveying religious concept such as demon and its attributes through different cultures. Using the method of comparative analysis and specific identification the authors describe three aspects of adjective definition – gnoseological, emotional-axiological and orthological. The paper confirms that attributive features of main characters in all literary texts can be depicted through one single adjective, its synonyms and its collocations. Moreover, description of demonic personages mostly depends on quality adjectives having selected by a creator of a literary text. The practical value of the study is that research findings can be used in future investigations on the modality and semantics of other adjectives belonging to the same semantic group.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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