PECULARITIES OF NOMINATION OF THE SEMANTIC FIELD “ILLEGITIMATE CHILD” IN YOUTH LITERATURE OF THE 1920s

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  • Ekaterina N. Polyakova Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education image/svg+xml

Abstract

https://doi.org/10.18522/1995-0640-2026-3-66-79

The specific ways of designating illegitimate child are examined based on youth literature of the 1920s. As a result of this study, the predominance of indirect nominations of an illegitimate child over direct ones by 4.5 times; the impact of extralinguistic factors; the variety of means of representing this topic; the weakening of an integral semantic feature through the semantics of uncertainty and transfer from genus to species in the prevailing number of indirect designations (66 %, or 68 examples) was found. The use of the studied linguistic units is limited by the socio-historical context. The nominations of an illegitimate child in the Soviet youth literature of the 1920s act as one of the means of social identification.  

Key words: indirect nomination, direct nomination, taboo, illegitimate child, Illegitimate, foreign cultural context, pre-revolutionary context

Author Biography

  • Ekaterina N. Polyakova , Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education

    postgraduate student, Department of the Russian Language, Speech Culture and Teaching Methods

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Published

2026-09-28

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 3 (2026)

Section

LINGUISTICS

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