The Russian Everyday Speech Through the Lens of Lexicography and Versus English Speech

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The article is concerned with the analysis of the most communicatively relevant semantic fields of Russian everyday speech, as well as some peculiarities of synonymy and antonymy of colloquial word meanings are considered. Comparison with English everyday vocabulary illuminates cultural differences between speakers of Russian and English respectively.

Keywords: COLLOQUIAL WORDS, SLANG, SEMANTIC FIELD, SYNONYMY, CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS, CROSSCULTURAL COMPARISON, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH, EVERYDAY SPEECH, EVERYDAY WORDS, LEXICAL CLASS, SEMANTIC TRANSITION, SEMANTIC EXTENSION, ANTONYMY, LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

: Category: Vol 74, NO 4 (2015)

Pages: 47-58

Author: R. I. Rozina

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