Lexico-Semantic Features of the Representation of Colour, Sound and Odour in the Kamchatka Sketches by V. M. Peskov
This article considers how imagery and description are stylistically revealed in a series of traveling sketches “Love — Kamchatka” by V. M. Peskov: how colours, sounds and odours of real world are lexicalised by the journalist. The article reveals that sketches are saturated with words denoting colo...
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ftstpetersburgun:oai:dspace.spbu.ru:11701/8500 2023-05-15T16:58:51+02:00 Lexico-Semantic Features of the Representation of Colour, Sound and Odour in the Kamchatka Sketches by V. M. Peskov Malyshev, Alexander A. 2017-09 https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu09.2017.313 http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8500 ru rus St Petersburg State University Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 14; Issue 3 lexical semantics traveling sketch journalism media linguistics media stylistics Article 2017 ftstpetersburgun https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu09.2017.313 2018-10-02T16:37:22Z This article considers how imagery and description are stylistically revealed in a series of traveling sketches “Love — Kamchatka” by V. M. Peskov: how colours, sounds and odours of real world are lexicalised by the journalist. The article reveals that sketches are saturated with words denoting colours or sounds. The colour lexicon mainly represents nuances and mixtures of colour, rather than spectral colours, and it is also often metaphoric. The sound lexicon is also variable: statistically, the sounds of nature (organic and inorganic) and civilisation sounds (people and engineering) account for more than 50 words. In both lexicons, we can see the words of “zero” designation: colourlessness and soundlessness. Although the Kamchatka sketches keep a relative balance between colour and sound designations, in some texts, however, one group of words can dominate over the other. The odour lexicon is quantitatively insignificant, mostly due to the fact that odour, once mentioned in the text, remains in memory of reader (smell of smoke around the erupting volcano) or is meant a priori, by means of stylistic reticence (bonfire’s smell of smoke). At the same time the semantic potential of the odour lexicon is enormous and it allows to reveal six contextual functional subsets of people, animals and volcanoes. The features of journalistic story, primarily seen as dynamic, rhythmic and underlying pragmatics of a travelling sketch, sometimes tend to slow down the process of reading, make a reader immerse himself into narration and stimulate his/her imagination. Refs 17. сследование осуществлено при финансовой поддержке РГНФ, проект № 14-34-01028 «Культурно-просветительский журналистский дискурс: ценности, коммуникативные интенции и речевые жанры». Article in Journal/Newspaper Kamchatka Saint Petersburg State University: Research Repository (DSpace SPbU) Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature 14 3 466 476 |
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This article considers how imagery and description are stylistically revealed in a series of traveling sketches “Love — Kamchatka” by V. M. Peskov: how colours, sounds and odours of real world are lexicalised by the journalist. The article reveals that sketches are saturated with words denoting colours or sounds. The colour lexicon mainly represents nuances and mixtures of colour, rather than spectral colours, and it is also often metaphoric. The sound lexicon is also variable: statistically, the sounds of nature (organic and inorganic) and civilisation sounds (people and engineering) account for more than 50 words. In both lexicons, we can see the words of “zero” designation: colourlessness and soundlessness. Although the Kamchatka sketches keep a relative balance between colour and sound designations, in some texts, however, one group of words can dominate over the other. The odour lexicon is quantitatively insignificant, mostly due to the fact that odour, once mentioned in the text, remains in memory of reader (smell of smoke around the erupting volcano) or is meant a priori, by means of stylistic reticence (bonfire’s smell of smoke). At the same time the semantic potential of the odour lexicon is enormous and it allows to reveal six contextual functional subsets of people, animals and volcanoes. The features of journalistic story, primarily seen as dynamic, rhythmic and underlying pragmatics of a travelling sketch, sometimes tend to slow down the process of reading, make a reader immerse himself into narration and stimulate his/her imagination. Refs 17. сследование осуществлено при финансовой поддержке РГНФ, проект № 14-34-01028 «Культурно-просветительский журналистский дискурс: ценности, коммуникативные интенции и речевые жанры». |
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Lexico-Semantic Features of the Representation of Colour, Sound and Odour in the Kamchatka Sketches by V. M. Peskov |
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