To the Question of the Productivity of Enantiosemy (on the Material of Russian and English languages)
This article shows that enantiosemy, far from being rare or whimsical, is a vastly productive cognitive mechanism of «meaning creation» in compliance with speaker's intentions. According to our consideration of the linguistic meaning as conceptualization enantiosemy is based on the ability of numbers of concepts to the contrary realization. In this case an enantiosemic mechanism can be actualized and an opposition can arise. The article includes a number of analytical examples in Russian and English languages.