ENANTIOSEMY AS A SPECIAL LEXICO-SEMANTIC CATEGORY OF THE LEXIC LAYER OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article deals with problems of determining the status and role of enantiosemy in the lexical and phraseological systems of the Russian language. The question of the criteria for the isolation of enantiosemic units continues to be debatable. Enantiosemic units in the linguistic literature are defined on the basis of various evaluation criteria. In this regard, there is worthy speaking of enantiosemy as a special lexico-semantic category of the lexical tier of the modern Russian language. The authors of the article analyze in detail examples of the use of enantiosemic formations in colloquial speech, the expressive possibilities of the considered linguistic category. This direction is interesting for specialists in the field of linguistics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and is promising for further development. The article concludes that the phenomenon of enantisomemia is one of the aspects of expressing a person’s vision of the surrounding reality, as well as a way of determining the verbal behavior of a person depending on the communicative purpose and intentions.