LINGUOPRAGMATIC DESCRIPTION OF VERBS WITH THE MEANING OF ‘LOVE’ IN ROMANIC LANGUAGES

Abstract

The specifics of a conceptual sphere “love / to love” in the Western Romanic languages is that this semantic field is realized based on verbs meaning ‘love’, forming, as a rule, a binary opposition, that is most explicitly characterized by the Spanish verbs amar and querer, between which both stylistic and semasiological differences can be traced. The study finds the correspondences of these verbs in other languages like Portuguese, Italian, French: the verbal equivalents to the Spanish verbs amar and querer are revealed; the similarities and differences between verbal lexemes meaning ‘love’ are distinguished, primarily in the linguopragmatic aspect, which includes the analysis of both the conceptual sphere of these verbs and the specifics of their syntagmatic distribution. As a result of the study, the author reveals that, despite certain semasiological and syntagmatic differences, the verbs with the meaning ‘love’ prove an internal conceptual unity and integrity in the group of Western Romanic languages, which is apparently due to the common origin of this group of languages.