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point of view, any language appears to be a system, and any text appears
to be a system. Studying the system of the text as a whole became one
of the main ideas of text linguistics.
The f i e l d a p p r o a c h refers to a specific way of a system
organization, wherein certain elements can realize this or that meaning
more or less purely. According to its main founders Jost Trier and Johann
Leo Weisgerber, the purest elements constitute the nucleus. The less purely
the meaning is represented by the element, the farther from the nucleus
it is placed – either in the sub-nuclear zone, or in the closest periphery,
or in the farthest periphery. Any field can be depicted in the following
way:
Рис. 1. Структура поля
nucleus
the sub-nuclear
zone
the farthest periphery
the closest
periphery
The number of the circles can be extended or diminished according
to the certain needs of the research. For example, in some cases only
the nucleus and the periphery can be distinguished, without further division
into closest/farthest.
The t h e s a u r u s a p p r o a c h
implies using ideographic
dictionaries, i. e. dictionaries organized according to the groups of meanings,
not in the alphabetic order. In most famous
Roget’s Thesaurus
, six such
classes have been distinguished: “Words Expressing Abstract Relations”,
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“Words Relating to Space”, “Words Relating to Matter”, “Words Relating
to the Intellectual Faculties”, “Words Relating to the Voluntary Powers”,
and “Words Relating to the Sentiment and Moral Powers”. Each class is
separated into sections, groups and subgroups.
Therefore, this approach implies referring a certain linguistic unit,
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