THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPLEMENTARITY IN THE INTERPRETATION OF SYNONYMIC RELATIONS IN THE TEXT

Abstract

This article is devoted to determining the role of complementarity in describing one of the semantic constants of the language – synonymy. The object of the analysis is synonymous sentences from a political text /discourse. In the course of the material analysis, it was revealed that the inclusion of a linguistic unit or group of linguistic units as synonymous in a homogeneous semantic space of the text /discourse is due to the existence of an additional meaning (or its component) in each of them, which is absent in other synonyms. It has been determined that it is precisely complementarity that is the condition for considering linguistic units as synonymous. It is proved that the significant role of complementarity in synonymy lies in the formation and development of the meaning of the entire text/discourse. Special attention is paid to the mechanism and methods of operation of the complementarity principle in the interpretation of synonymous connections of linguistic units in the text /discourse. Different mechanisms for actualizing additional meanings of synonymous sentences in the formation of meaning and its development in the text/discourse are determined.