Identifying the Features of Synonyms in the Definition of the Paradigm of "Wishing" in English Language

Document Type : Research Article

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General Linguistics and Turkology Department, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

Abstract

Since ancient times, people have wished each other well on a variety of occasions. In public and political discussions (meetings), wishes were conveyed through congratulations texts and were applicable in both peaceful and combative settings. The various ways that wishes are expressed in greeting texts—which are very real on social media and in TV—show that wishing in the English language permits one to produce unique speech acts using a range of expressive mediums in addition to cliched formulas. Additionally, books with wishes written in them are published separately. In addition, a lot of poets and authors post congratulations and well wishes on their personal blogs. As a result, the same wish appears in various texts in various variants and synonymous forms. The lexical units that comprise the synonymous pairs in English speech wishes will be the main topic of this essay. The study's importance is directly tied to the tasks of determining which synonymous units are active in the wishes text and how they differ in oral and written communication. The research experience that the professors at Kazan Federal University have accumulated is reflected in the findings of the article. This new study aims to define the performative paradigm of the English language speech act of "wishing" by identifying the characteristics of synonyms. The study's authors examined publications on linguistics and philology published by contemporary Russian and international scholars; they examined the lexical information found in greeting text collections, dictionaries of English synonyms, and congratulations websites; they also compared the vocabulary stock with real-world speech. 

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Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics
Volume 14, Issue 3
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research in Applied Linguistics (ICRAL 2023), October 30, 2023, Kazan, Russia
October 2023
Pages 282-285

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