The study compares the methods of defining concepts proposed by Anna Wierzbicka and Jerzy Bartmiński. Two variants of the maximal definition are identified: the extended variant, where the definition assumes the form of a ...

The article focuses on changeability and variability of lexicographic definitions of word meanings given by Russian and English dictionaries. On the basis of various types of lexical units in Russian and English, changeability ...

The aim of this study is to analyze the lexicographical descriptions of emotional verbs in the Serbian language. Verbs denoting emotions (i.e. voleti, mrzeti, tugovati, ljutiti se, želeti etc.) form a specific lexical set ...

This article is an attempt to distinct different types of words’ meanings such as: direct (main, objectual) meaning, terminological meaning, syntactic-dependent meaning, derivative (metaphoric, indirect) meaning, rhetorical ...