Specificity of the semantics of inexpressible in the publicism of the XIX century

Abstract

The article is devoted to the characterization of expression of the functional-semantic category of inexpressible in the publicism of the ХIХ century on the works of M.P.Pogodin. A brief characteristic of inexpressible is given; this meaning is compared with the conjugate functional-semantic categories of the incomprehensible, invisible, and also categories of uncertainty. It is shown that the organization of the expression the conjugate categories in Pogodin’s works is based on the apophatism. The publicistic work of a historian-publicist is characterized by both single-word constituents of the inexpressible, and in the composition of utterance. The most frequent is an inconceivable adjective and its derivatives (incomprehensible, incomprehensibly, the incomprehensible). The adjectives inexplicable and incomprehensible and their derivatives are frequent in Pogodin’s works depending on the syntagmatic environment and the text assignment, these units actualize the meaning of inexpressible or incomprehensible. The adjective unknown is 10% of the total amount of means of expression of inexpresible.