Functional-semantic field of diminutiveness in the English and Russian languages
The article gives the complex analysis of the functional-semantic field of diminutiveness in the English and Russian languages taking into account its structural and semantic peculiarities. It also explores the theoretical aspects of the field organization in a particular functional-semantic field organization of any language; different points of view on the problem of definition of this notion are analyzed. The category of diminutiveness as a universe category characteristic of multistructural diversified languages. The concept of the FSF of diminutiveness is examined from the comparative linguistic point of view. The stress is made on finding out the markers of diminutiveness in different language layers. The concentric-circular organization of the analysed FSF in Russian and English is under investigation. In the article the specific character of the functional-semantic and structural peculiarities of diminutiveness in terms and concepts of field researches based on English and Russian is analysed.