"Is he one of ours?": The cultural semantics and ethnopragmatics of social categories in Russian

Anna Gladkova

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2013.06.010

"Is he one of ours?": The cultural semantics and ethnopragmatics of social categories in Russian

Anna Gladkova

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Abstract

The study illuminates the meanings of selected Russian social category terms svoj 'one's own', čužoj 'alien/stranger/foreigner', naš 'ours' and ne naš 'not ours' using written and spoken data of the Russian National Corpus. The paper contributes to understanding of Russian relationships and social cognition and establishes connections between the meanings of these terms and selected Russian communicative styles. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) is used to formulate semantic explications of the terms and cultural scripts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	180-194
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Pragmatics
Volume	55
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.06.010
Publication status	Published - Sept 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cultural scripts
Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)
Russian
Russian culture
Social categories
Social cognition

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"Is he one of ours?": The cultural semantics and ethnopragmatics of social categories in Russian

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