Subcategory of Evolution within Deviation Category in the English Language

Bibliographic Details
Parent link:Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences.— , 2010-
Vol. 5, № 20.— 2014.— [P. 2327-2331]
Main Author: Ptashkin A. S. Aleksandr Sergeevich
Corporate Author: Национальный исследовательский Томский политехнический университет
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The author describes the language means of expressing the subcategory “Evolution” as the element of the biologicalcomponent of the deviation category in the English language. The subcategory “Evolution” is considered as the basic elementin forming the biological component of deviation category, but the author distinguishes other mental units that areinterconnected with the primary category. “Evolution” is mentioned as the subcategory, further analysis gives chance to see theconcepts “Mutation” and its components “Beneficial Mutation”, “Degenerative Mutation”, and “Migration”, “Genetic Drift”,“Natural Selection” within this subcategory. The author considers the category of deviation, expressed by the words of generalsemantics with root devia-, and concludes that the concretization of the meanings of mentioned above words occurs by meansof the analysis of their contextual correlations with language units, representing the subcategory “Evolution”, included in thesphere of deviation. This subcategory is the part within the hierarchical structure of deviation category, the peculiar feature ofthis structure is the presence of hyper-hyponym relations in it.
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n20p2327
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
KOHA link:https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=643558