COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE METHODS OF EXPRESSION OF NEGATION IN THE RUSSIAN AND ROMANIAN LANGUAGES (BASED ON LITERARY TEXTS
Journal Title: Мова - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 29
Abstract
The paper researches into the verbal means of expressing the category of negation in the modern Russian and Romanian languages. The relevance of the work is conditioned by the existing contradictions and inconsistencies in the interpretation and definition of the term «negation» as well as by the fact that the stylistic and semantic functioning of negation in the works of literary fiction has not been fully studied. The subject matter of the research and description is the category of negation and the means of its representation in the Russian and Romanian languages, which can be both implicit and explicit. The scope of the study is the category of negation whose means of expression are identified in original and translated literary texts. Special attention is paid to the means of negation representation in the languages that are being compared as well as to the functional specificities of the syntactic structures with negation elements. The objective of the research is the description of the peculiarity of the linguistic means with negative semantics in Russian and Romanian texts. The theoretical importance of the study of the category of negation is connected with the possibility of expanding the understanding of its functioning in a literary text, as this category is one of the most significant linguistic categories, being manifested through various forms and means; that is why it demands such thorough study. Research findings consist in the further study of the negation category as one of the linguistic universals in terms of the comparison of languages referring to different systems. Practical application is the possibility to use the obtained results while delivering lectures on contrastive linguistics, the theory of translation, the modern Russian language. Conclusions: the Romanian and Russian languages possess a polynegative system of expressing negation. The possibility to use several means to express negation in a sentence is characteristic both of the Russian and Romanian languages, which allows to reflect a variety of diverse semantic connotations, complementing the general meaning of negation. A negative sentence is rightly considered more emotional and expressive in comparison with an affirmative one. The communicative function of negation is completely defined by the communicative situation.
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Elena V. SIROTA
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- EP ID EP631928
- DOI 10.18524/2307-4558.2018.29.139378
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