Об удивлении как лингвоспецифичном концепте русского языка

Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация. 2018. Т. 16. № 2. С. 90–100.

Botchkarev A.

The article is devoted to udivleniye ‘wonder’ as a language-specific word in order to show its specific
conceptual configuration in the Russian language consciousness.
According to the National Russian Corpus, wonder is explicated, in its explanatory expressions,
as a cause and as a consequence in regard to related feelings and experiences, as well as situations
in which it is being experienced. As many examples have shown, people are always surprised when
something exceeds expectations contrary to usual opinion or attitude. In this way, wonder is not
only an emotional but also a mental state as a cause (stimulus) of a corresponding emotional reaction.
According to available data, udivleniye ‘wonder’ may be ordinary or extraordinary by statement;
deep, strong or easy by intensity; unperceived, vague or inexplicable by the degree of awareness;
genuine, sincere, cast, false or ostentatious by authenticity; calm, reserved, timid, insane or silent
by external manifestation; pleasant, unpleasant, painful or heavy by physical sensations; painful,
cold, arrogant or chilly by emotional and psychological experiences; innocent, naive, stupid or idiotic
by the criterion of moral evaluation.
In its most manifestations, udivleniye ‘wonder’ is related to different concepts like bewilderment,
curiosity, admiration as well as disbelief, frustration, annoyance, outrage, condemnation, anxiety,
fright and fear that refer to some typical wonder-situations in which they occur as a possible reaction
to a subject of wonder: cf. wonder → joy (frustration, outrage, etc.).
The propositional model, built on the National Corpus, relies on information which includes
predicates associated to udivleniye ‘wonder’ varying according to their position in the syntactic structure
of a proposition. As a semantic object, wonder is compatible with the verbs test, cause, initiate,
express, show, depict, obscure; as a semantic subject, it is compatible with emerge, exude, spread,
cover, borrow, erode, pass, etc.

Keywords: корпусные исследования, propositional attitudes, propositional model, пропозициональная модель, contexts of opinion, установка мнения, feelings and emotions, чувства и эмоции, corpus studies, language-specific words, conceptual correlations, лингвоспецифичные слова, предметно-понятийные корреляции