Lexis of Friendship: Perspectives for the Study
The article presents a brief overview of the works on the Russian lexis of the semantic field of “Friendship”. It is noted that the attention of the authors is focused on the functioning of the words drug ‘friend’, druzhba ‘friendship’, druzhnyy ‘friendly’, druzhit ‘be friends’as units of the Russian literary language. It is shown that in the speech of Russian dialect speakers these words have slightly different meanings and connotations. The author comes to the conclusion about the necessity of the analysis of words of this group, their synonyms and analogues in the Russian dialects