French complex words as a product of linguocreativity

Abstract

The proposed study is a synthesis of the scientific results that were presented at the round table conference of the Voronezh State University forum in the memory of Doctor of Philology, Professor V. T. Titov. The focus is on the French complex words that are considered as human lingvo-creativity product. It is considered the role of cognitive factors in the lingvo-creativity. In particular, complex words are distinguished, there is not secondary conceptualization in their detection, and complex words with stylistic marking are detected due to the participation in the lingvo-creative process of cognitive models encountered with metaphor. It is carried out the classification of mental and semantic models of figurative nomination of the specified type. In the report it is pointed out that the degree of a complex sign idiomaticity is closely related to its stylistic marking. Compositionality analysis of a complex sign is considered as an ability to observe the formation of a word’s lexical and derivational meaning, based on the interpretation of the types of its components connection. Several types of idiomaticity of compound words are described, reflecting the features, especially varieties of linguo-creative activity: stylistically neutral, weakly idiomatic complex signs obtained as a result of composition; stylistically marked complex signs obtained through a parallel process of composition and semantic derivation; stylistically marked complex signs that are the result of semantic development on the basis of a complex word (derived from complex words lexical-semantic variants) with significant idiomaticity. It is pointed to the fact that in the integrated concept behind the complex word in its original meaning, there is a perspectivization of a certain feature, which becomes a nuclear one, determining the further semantic development of the complex sign.