Emotive connotations of the “big city” concept in the language of the Argentines

Abstract

In the focus of the present study is the emotive-modal content of the “big city” (Buenos Aires) concept within the cultural worldview of the Argentines. On the basis of texts of two contemporary poets, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) and Oliverio Girondo (1891-1967), the emotive semantics of words belonging to the Argentinian variety of Spanish, specifically actualized in poetic speech acts is analyzed.

Keywords

• культурная картина мира
• аргентинский вариант испан-ского языка
• концепт «большой город»
• литература аргентины
• поэтический текст
• лингвистическая модальность
• эмотивная семантика
• cultural worldview
• argentinian variety of spanish language
• “big city” concept
• argentine literature
• poetic text
• linguistic modality
• emotive semantics