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WORD FUNCTIONING IN THE PROCESSES OF THINKING AND SPEAKING

WORD FUNCTIONING IN THE PROCESSES OF THINKING AND SPEAKING


Author:  S. A. Pesina

Abstract
The paper singles out the semantic core (lexical prototype) of a word as
1) a functional basis of the interpretative mechanism and 2) a basis of a polysemantic word functioning in a person’s lexicon.

Keywords:  schemes, interaction, initial meaning of a polysemantic word, semantic core

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