THE SEMANTIC UNITY LOVE-INDIFFERENCE-HATE: THE MEANINGFUL COMPONENT

Abstract

The article examines the meaningful component of the semantic unity lyubov’-ravnodushie-nenavist’ (love-indifference-hate) on the material of the explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language. For each of the three components of the semantic unity, an assessment is made of the lexical and phraseological means of their expression. The conclusion is made about their asymmetry: love absolutely dominates in terms of the number of units expressing its semantics; indifference and hate in this respect are comparable. Nouns that concretize the object of the corresponding feeling are found in both love and hatred, but they are absent in indifference. Also, indifference lacks the methods of lexical expression with the help of suffixoids, which are present in love and hate. Logical and semantic oppositions of the components of the semantic unity are manifested in the lexical system of the language: it contains both the opposition of love and hate and the opposition of indifference and love, but not the opposition of hate and indifference.