Semantična prozodija

The monograph focuses on corpus analysis of texts, exploring the interface between lexical and discursive aspects of pragmatic meaning. As the concept of evaluation is key to understanding how language works, our aim is to shed light on semantic prosody – a traditionally neglected evaluation-related phenomenon in Slovenian linguistics – as shown in some specific areas of applied linguistics, especially lexicography and translation. The locus of this phenomenon, which determines the pragmatic function of a unit of meaning, is in the textual, not the lexical meaning. This poses a challenge to modern lexicography. The introduction is followed by a brief outline of the history of pragmatic research and an analysis of selected lexical units, while in the second part of the book pragmatic aspects of textual and discursive analysis, including evaluation and metaphor, are presented. The importance of semantic prosody for linguistics is confirmed by tradition, as well as by insights in many areas closely related to language and interpretation of meaning, such as digitization and (language) technology, media discourse and policy, or law.

Monografija se usmerja v korpusno analizo besedil, ki kaže, kje se stikajo oziroma prepletajo leksikalni in diskurzivni vidiki pragmatičnega pomena. Pojem vrednotenja je ključen za razumevanje, kako jezik deluje, zato smo želeli s posebnim poudarkom na pojavu, imenovanem semantična prozodija, osvetliti to, v slovenskem prostoru tradicionalno zapostavljeno temo, kot se kaže na nekaterih specifičnih področjih uporabnega jezikoslovja, posebej v leksikografiji in prevodoslovju. Lokus tega pojava, ki določa pragmatično funkcijo pomenske enote, je v besedilnem, ne leksikalnem pomenu, kar predstavlja izziv za sodobne leksikografske opise. Prvi del knjige sestavljajo poleg uvoda krajši zgodovinski oris pragmatičnih jezikovnih teorij in izbrane leksikalne analize, v drugem delu sledi navezava na pragmatične vidike besedilne oziroma diskurzivne analize, na vrednotenje in metaforo, ob koncu pojav osvetlimo še v medjezični perspektivi. Pomen raziskovanja semantične prozodije za jezikoslovje potrjuje tradicija, pa tudi spoznanja na mnogih področjih, ki so tesno povezana z jezikom in interpretacijo pomena, denimo digitalizacija in tehnologije, medijske politike in vsebine ali pravo(sodje).