title: Rose — a color and a flower: Meaning and cultural context
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metadata.value: Tolochin, Igor V.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Vlasova, Assol A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-02-06T10:05:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-02-06T10:05:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Tolochin I. V., Vlasova A. A. Rose — a color and a flower: Meaning and cultural context. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2019, 16 (4): 618–637.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2019.405
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16997
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper focuses on the comparative analysis of dictionary definitions and selected contexts
  for the word rose, adjective and noun, used both as the name of a flower and of a color. The following
  dictionaries of the English language are used as sources of definitions: The American
  Heritage Dictionary of English Language Online, Merriam-Webster Online, Oxford Dictionary
  Online, The Collins Dictionary Online, Cambridge Dictionary Online, and the Macmillan
  English Dictionary. A comparative analysis of the entries reveals a number of serious shortcomings.
  The dictionaries demonstrate a tendency to prioritize highly specific information
  from the contextual fields of biology and commercial gardening as the basis for their definitions,
  which disconnects the definition from the majority of the illustrative examples within
  the entries. The connection of rose to human emotions is either ignored completely or underrepresented.
  The definitions of rose as the name of a color fail to clarify the specific nature of
  this color and its semantic link to its homonym. The paper proposes an analysis of more than
  700 contexts selected from linguistic corpora (BNC, COCA) and Google search engine, with
  an alternative model of the polysemic structure of rose, the flower name, as a result. Also outlined
  is the nature of the semantic motivation of rose, the color, by one of the senses of rose,
  the flower. The proposed analytical method can considerably improve the quality of dictionary
  entries by bringing definitions more in line with the actual use of the word in language.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 64; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: word meaning
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: polysemy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: homonyms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: definition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: context
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Rose — a color and a flower: Meaning and cultural context
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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