Semantics and pragmatics of the noun communism and of the adjective communist and challenges in understanding prof. Efremov’s science fiction novels about remote future
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Yakovlev A.V. Semantics and pragmatics of the noun communism and of the adjective communist and challenges in understanding prof. Efremov’s science fiction novels about remote future. Science. Culture. Society. 2021. Vol. 27. No. 1. P. 80-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/nko.2021.27.1.7 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The paper deals with the polysemy of the word communism, focusing on its canonical meaning – "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" classless society, depicted in Prof. Efremov’s SF novels and which assumed official definition in 1961. This meaning is now being ousted by the one traditional for the West and referring to what Prof. Efremov called pseudosocialism. The change in the semantics of the word "communism" in the Russian language leads to communicative failures in the perception of texts in which the word "communism" is used in the canonical meaning. Along with the undoubted polysemy of the noun "communism" (and the adjective "communist") – communism as a social movement versus communism as a social system versus communism as a worldview, it is necessary to state the lexical ambiguity of these words in relation to the social system.
Keywords:
polysemy, ambiguity, semantics, pragmatics, Prof. Ivan Efremov, communism, socialism, pseudosocialism, perception of literary works
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5. Efremov I. A. (1976). Sochineniya v 3-kh tomakh. T. 3. Kniga vtoraya. M. : Molodaya gvardiya. 384 p. (In Russ.).
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7. Kratkii filosofskii slovar'. (1954). [Short Philosophical Dictionary]. Ed. by M. Rozental', P. Yudin. M. : Gospolitizdat. 704 p. (In Russ.).
8. Efremov I. A. (2015). Chas Byka. [The Bull's Hour]. SPb : Azbuka. 512 p. (In Russ.).
9. Banting B. (1965). Stanovlenie Yuzhno-Afrikanskogo Reikha. M. : Mysl'. 391 p. (In Russ.).
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Received: 10.01.2021
Accepted: 05.03.2021
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Yakovlev, A. V. (2021). Semantics and pragmatics of the noun communism and of the adjective communist and challenges in understanding prof. Efremov’s science fiction novels about remote future. Science. Culture. Society, 27(1), 80-91. https://doi.org/10.19181/nko.2021.27.1.7
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