The semantic theory of A. F. Losev and semantic theories in the XX century

The paper deals with the semantic theory of A.F. Losev in his early period up to 1930 as well as in his linguistic investigations in the 70th and 80th of the last century. In his early works, especially in the "Philosophy of the Name" and the "Dialectics of Myth", Losev sees in meaning a semantic cluster, which becomes "open" and develops within speech (in sentences, narrations or myths). The works of the late period investigate invariant meanings of words and grammatical categories in the sense of some interpretive force. Using a word or some grammatical category, the speaker already interprets some state of affairs. In a sense, all invariant meaning seems to be metaphorical, i.e. meanings are interpretations of the world. Losev's "Semantic of interpretation" has been compared to explicit and inherent semantic theories of Pavel Florensky and Edmund Husserl. Furthermore some parallels to actual semantic terms have been drawn, firstly to the term of prototype.