Functional Features of Verbs of Interpersonal Relations in Russian and Chinese Languages

The article studies functional features of verbs involved in the expression of interpersonal relations in the Russian and Chinese languages. Considering this group of verbs as a subfield of the general lexical-semantic field of attitude verbs is primarily conditioned by the fact that it expresses relations arising among people in the form of feelings, judgments and appeals to one another in course of everyday life. The group of verbs with a variety of both direct and figurative meanings, which are used in different spheres of human communication, is analyzed. The analysis of the studied verbs allows us find out the ways of their realization and appropriate the means to describe human relations in the Russian and Chinese languages. In accordance with the aim and objectives of the study, the article considers cases of expressing relations using adverbs in some constructions of fiction texts, which allows us reveal such features of relations as multiple repetition, duration and length. The analysis of this group of verbs of interpersonal relations helps us understand the semantic structure of the verb that plays a leading role in the context and show the characteristics of the author’s individual expression of interpersonal relations. It was revealed that in isolated cases the verb in Chinese can fulfill the function of a subject, which is explained by the syntactic peculiarities of the structure of this language. The results of the study confirm the hypothesis of incomplete correspondence between the functional features of verbs of interpersonal relations in the two languages under comparison. © Li Xiuyu, Denisenko V.N., Malenkova A.A., 2024.

Авторы
Li X. , Denisenko V.N. , Malenkova A.A.
Издательство
Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования Российский университет дружбы народов (РУДН)
Номер выпуска
2
Язык
Английский
Страницы
443-456
Статус
Опубликовано
Том
15
Год
2024
Организации
  • 1 General and Russian Linguistics Department, Philological Faculty, RUDN University, 6, Miklukho-Maklaya Str, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
  • 2 General and Russian Linguistics Department, RUDN University, 6, Miklukho-Maklaya Str, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
  • 3 Foreign languages department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, RUDN University, 6, Miklukho-Maklaya str, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
Ключевые слова
function; functional features; speech style; verbs of interpersonal relations
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