FUNCTIONING OF NOUNS WITH THE SEMANTICS OF “ANGLE OF VIEW” IN THE STATEMENT AND IN THE TEXT

Abstract

The article examines functioning of nouns with the semantics of “angle of view” (Rus. aspekt (an aspect), podhod (an approach), storona (a part), tochka zreniya (a view-point), cherez prizmu (through a prism), v svete (in the light), etc.) in the utterance and in the text. The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that these lexical units are insufficiently described in the literature and have an ambiguous interpretation in scientific grammar and in lexicographic practice. In the course of the study, it is revealed that the units that are unambiguous from the point of view of the expression of the mode perform nominative, cognitive, communicative-pragmatic, text-organizing, semantic-syntactic functions. In the article, each function is considered separately, in relation to each other, and the question of the hierarchy of functions is discussed. As nouns, these lexical units perform a nominative function. All of them denote “a certain understanding of something, an angle of view on the subject of research”. The studied lexemes express a certain act of consciousness – the direction of cognition of the thought process. They are a description of a real situation of a mental nature, they call the result of intellectual modeling of reality, they structure the mental sphere of a person (understanding and cognition). That is, they perform a cognitive function in the utterance and in the text. The cognitive function of the studied lexemes is closely related to the communicative-pragmatic function. These units, if they are considered from the point of view of semantic syntax, can be markers of the mode and perform a semantic-syntactic function. The result of the study of contexts using component and transformational analysis is the conclusion that units that are unambiguous from the point of view of mode expression explicate the mental mode, while the nomination tochka zreniya (a view-point) and the lexemes vzglyad (a point of view), pozitsiya (a position), storona (a part), as polysemants, can be a means of representing the mental mode or/and authorization and authenticity/persuasion. In addition, the studied lexemes can organize the text, ensure its coherence and articulability. They can denote the connection between predicative units and sentences, as well as construct a complex syntactic whole. “Mental” nouns can denote the boundaries of a complex syntactic whole in a scientific text, as well as larger parts, for example, sections, chapters. Thus, the units under consideration perform a text-organizing function. The lexemes vzglyad, pozitsiya, storona, tochka zreniya in the meaning of “opinion, judgment” can function in an utterance as a syncretic indicator of authorization and authenticity/persuasion.