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Anthropocentric nature of the function words category

Anthropocentric nature of the function words category


Author:  Tolmacheva I.N.

Affiliation:  Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin

Abstract:  The paper focuses on the problems of construction and functioning of the linguistic category of function words. The ideas for searching a specific conceptual grounding which enables to consider different-class language items as sharing the same category are advanced. Within anthropocentric framework to linguistic phenomena a function word is viewed as a means of conceptualization of the world from the perspective of its structural organization in the way it is mentally cognized and interpreted in language.

Keywords:  function word  ◆  function  ◆  grammaticalization  ◆  interpreting meaning  ◆  interpretative category  ◆  subject principle  ◆  anthropocentrism

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