ZHELEZOBETONNIY ARGUMENT (SEMANTIC DERIVATION OF THE ADJECTIVE IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OF THE 21st CENTURY)

Abstract

The article deals with the semantic derivation of the adjective zhelezobetonniy in the Russian language of the most recent period. The phenomenon manifests itself in the development of metaphoric meanings, the appearance of the semantic neologism ‘firm, solid, not easy to destroy, eliminate, disprove or cancel’ that has not been yet recorded lexicographically (zhelezobetonniye dokazatelstva, ubezhdennost, fact). It has been shown that the adjective in metaphoric meanings reveals the features of qualitative type, changes (extends) its compatibility, implies evaluation (meliorative or pejorative) that can be expressed in context, forms new synonymous links (zheleznoye alibi - zhelezobetonnoye alibi). The analysis has been performed on the basis of the data from definition dictionaries, modern fiction, and mass media texts, using the Russian National Corpus.