Lexical semantic field "gesticulation" in the English explanatory dictionaries
The article is dedicated to the study of the lexical semantic field “gesticulation” in theexplanatory dictionaries of the English language. The article deals with semiotic aspectof correlation of verbal and paraverbal codes in human communication. Verbalization ofa kineme has been studied. Kineme is treated as a proto-sign, which semantic structurecomprises three obligatory semantic knots, i. e. “what is moving”, “how it is moving”, “what forit is moving”. Lexicographically registered verbal kinemes constitute language lexico-semanticfield “gesticulation”. Nuclear-peripheral structure of the field in the language subordinates tothe semantic principle of hyper-hyponymical relations among its constituents.