The theme of this research paper is synonyms of ‘to look’.
I am going to define what is a synonym, synonymy and examine different shades of meaning (basic and derivative) and synonyms of ‘to look’ in English, Latvian and Russian. I will examine the structure of synonym dictionaries, synonym lines and similarities and differences of synonyms of ‘to look’ in these three languages.
I will also slightly touch upon some synonym translation problems.
I have chosen this topic because I think eyesight is a very important sense of human beings and in every language of the world there is a word ‘to look’ and a great amount of synonyms to this word. But as languages and cultures differ these synonyms are not absolutely the same. I find it interesting to look for information, look it up in books or Internet, look deeper into things and I am looking to receive a positive evaluation of my work and to never look back after finishing it. …
