ONOMATOPOEIA AS A WAY OF EXPRESSING LOVE SEMANTICS
This article offers semantic, phonosemantic and quantitative analysis of the thematic group “Love” on the material of German and Russian languages on the level of onomatopoeia. By means of etymological phonosemantic analysis, the phonic iconicity character of some linguistic units that have lost connection with acoustic denotation is revealed: Ger. gefallen “like”, Rus. prikipet' “to fall in love”. A detailed phonosemantic typology of acoustic onomatopes is presented as the most frequent on the basis of the universal typology of S.V. Voronin. The relationship between sound and semantics is revealed: assertiveness and persistence are explosive consonants: Ger. anbaggern “impose oneself”; Rus. podbivat' klin'ya “play the spark to”, fricative - tenderness and softness: Ger. Fiffi “girl of easy virtue”; Rus. svistul'ka, fifochka. In most cases, the semantics of love in German and Russian is expressed by a combination of the explosive and sonorous, as well as explosive, sonorous and vibrant. The models of the semantic development of onomatopoeia are fixed: blow, sound of blow (acoustic onomatopes) > love: Ger. mit den Augen klappern “shoot eyes, flirt”, Rus. shchelkat' glazami “flirting”, body sounds (articulatory onomatopes) > love: Ger. schlecken “to kiss”, Rus. lizat'sya “to kiss”, speaking (onomatopes of speaking) > love: Ger. schmusen “to tell compliments, to tickle the ear”; Rus. lalara “girl” < lala “chatterbox”. The stylistic affiliation of the units studied is analyzed, most of which belongs to colloquial speech. The universal and specific features of the manifestation of love semantics at the level of onomatopeia are revealed. It is concluded that onomatopoeia is a universal way of explicating the semantics of love in German and Russian. Specificity of onomatopoeia as a way of expressing the semantics of love consists in minor quantitative differences in the phonosemantic types in the languages being studied, which is due to errors in statistical processing.