• Original research article
  • February 25, 2013
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NOTIONAL COMPONENT OF CONCEPT “PARDON” IN CANADIAN ENGLISH

Abstract

The author aims at researching the notional structure component of the concept “pardon” in Canadian English, for this purpose by using data from monolingual, bilingual and ideographic dictionaries makes up the list of lexemes that represent the notional part of the concept “pardon” in Canadian English, and presents the semantic content of lexemes in the form of diagrams, as it allows considering visually the features of lexemes dictionary meanings and conducting the analysis of dictionary definitions.

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Author information

Mariya Aleksandrovna Nudel'man

Michurinsk State Agrarian University

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  • Published: February 25, 2013.

Keywords

  • концепт
  • помилование
  • понятийный компонент
  • семантическое наполнение
  • лексема
  • языковая репрезентация
  • concept
  • pardon
  • notional component
  • semantic content
  • lexeme
  • language representation

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