ON PRONOMINAL SEMANTICS: A COGNITIVE-PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE

Authors

  • Yelena YERZNKYAN Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2017.21.1.166

Keywords:

pronominal semantics, deixis, relativity, context-dependance, cognitive linguistics, pragmasemantics

Abstract

The paper touches upon the special nature of pronouns conditioned by their deictability and its specific pragmasemantic features. Pronouns have their own type of deixis, which results from their cognitive-pragmatic characteristics and consists in the coexistence of the two layers in their meaning: that of “lexical content” as well as “pragmatic content” which helps to complete the proposition expressed.

Published

2017-05-15

Issue

Section

Linguistics