Affiliation:
1. The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Abstract
Abstract
An onomasiological competition between lexical units, in which they compete to name a certain object (phenomenon,
process, event, etc.), rarely attracts the attention of linguists, mainly due to an interdisciplinary nature of such research and
the lack of a developed methodology for that. In this article, the author presents a case study of the onomasiological competition
between constructions of otkryvat' butylku (‘to open a bottle’) and otkuporivat' butylku (‘to
uncork a bottle’) during the 19th and 20th centuries and reveals sociocultural factors influencing the course and result of this
competition. Based on this analysis, a few sociocultural scenarios that should be taken into consideration in research of various
types of onomasiological competition are presented.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Language and Linguistics