Pejorative terms for people in the Serbian language
The objective of this research is the pejorative connotation of lexemes denoting and qualifying people in the contemporary Serbian language. These nominal units with negative expressive tonality have a specific semantic structure where, apart from denotative components, connotative semantic...
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade
2021
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| Sumario: | The objective of this research is the pejorative connotation of lexemes
denoting and qualifying people in the contemporary Serbian language. These
nominal units with negative expressive tonality have a specific semantic
structure where, apart from denotative components, connotative semantic
components - evaluative, expressive and emotional semes - play a significant
function in the forming of their lexical meaning. Pejorative terms for
people have been analysed from different points of view, such as
lexical-semantic, derivative and linguo-cultural at some points. The main
goal was to establish parameters having a negative impact on certain
individuals or social groups within the Serbian cultural and linguistic
background - to reveal the collective negative assessment based on different
associations, stereotypes, beliefs and prejudice incorporated in the Serbian
linguistic and social community. The choice of speaker’s nomination units
used to point to one’s ethnical or religious beliefs, age, sexual
orientation, social or financial status, physical or intellectual
shortcomings, mental handicap, personal characteristics, etc. is the index
of the person’s negative and contemptuous emotional attitude to the members
of the linguistic community within the aforementioned marks. Therefore, the
classification of lexemes in this research is primarily based on the
semantic criterion, where we have defined seven thematic categories of
pejorative terms. On the other hand, we were also interested in some
structural (derivative) characteristics of derogatory nouns referring to
people in the Serbian language. It has been established that the pejorative
meaning might be a product of semantic and affixal derivation. The
traditional approach to studying lexical meaning in this research is related
to the cognitive approach, combining componential and conceptual methods of
analysis with the descriptive method. |
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