particular language. Speech can narrow down to a microspace
(social, age, territorial, professional, etc.), where there will be
its own synonymy. Within this space, both new linguistic
forms and new meanings can appear. In this regard, we are
dealing with the value orientation of a person, since it is the
concept of value that is at the heart of the categorization
process. For example, to the question: “What can you call a
bachelor?”, nominations are clearly distinguished by gender
factor. Boys mainly gave the following nominations: free,
single, boy, unengaged, unringed, and girls- unmarried, loner,
bean, biryuk, widower, monk, egoist.
The establishment of similarity is influenced not only
by subjective perception, but also by the cultural and social
space that surrounds the native speaker (here, both microspace
and the national cultural background as a whole can be
distinguished): for example, in the minds of the largest
number of recipients there are groups of words that are
perceived as identical, but we are not allowed to recognize
them as absolute synonyms by the fact that there are subjects
who find a difference between these units, perceiving them as
close in meaning.
The distinction between such words as pier and wharf
is connected not simply with ideas about these objects, but
rather with the presence of individual experience, i.e., the
difference was established by those subjects who either lived
near the coast or visited this place. A pier is understood as “a
special place for ships”, “where ships stay for a long time” or
“a specially equipped place for boarding passengers”, “the size
of the pier is larger than the pier”, “you can walk along the
pier”. The berth is perceived as “a convenient place for a ship
to approach the shore”, “not specially equipped”, “a place
where they moor”.
The main purpose of synonymy is not to create
semantic doublets, not to create words that are identical in
content, but different in their linguistic expression, but in the
same semantic shade, in highlighting some feature in the
designated phenomenon that is not represented by another
synonymous form. Thus, the difference against the
background of semantic similarity causes the appearance of
synonyms in the language. In addition, in modern research
there is an opinion that in language, as in life, there are no
absolutely identical phenomena: each identity initially
contains distinctive features. “As a result, any identity formed
in the language, “burdened” with a set of systemic connections
peculiar only to it, initially contains differential features,
which, having reached, under certain systemically specified