Academic literature on the topic 'Lexico-thematic system'

The relevance of the work is due to the need to study sociolects as socially marked variants of a language that have similarities and differences in the lexico-semantic and word-formation systems. In this regard, its purpose is to analyze and describe similar and contrasting elements in the sociolects of traders and criminals on the material of Russian and English languages. In the course of the study, the method of sociological observation, experiment, questioning, the method of cognitive semantics, the method of cognitive derivation, the method of questioning and associative experiment was used. The results obtained include: similarity (the presence of the same names of thematic series, the use of morphological, lexico-semantic methods of word formation), the presence of contrasts (consisting in the composition of thematic series of vocabulary, the presence of many polysemantic words, homonyms in the sociolect of criminals, phraseological units, ambiguous in origin) and stylistic affiliation, in the difference in the methods of word formation used in the sociolect of traders (abbreviation, acronymization, truncation). An integrative approach has been applied to the study of the sociolects of traders and criminals, based on expansionist, functional and anthropocentric principles. The use of the anthropocentric principle manifested itself in the description of the specifics of the social groups of criminals and traders. Expansionism was expressed in the use of methods of various sciences (cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, contrastive linguistics). The use of the principle of functionalism consists in describing the functions of the compared sociolects, in identifying their similar and different functions. It is concluded that the sociolects of traders and criminals are indeed socially marked variants of the language, since the compared subsystems of the language have a specific system of lexical units, that manifest themselves in the ways of word formation, and various functions due to the social characteristics of their speakers. It is noted that the article is notable for its novelty, since the study of the sociolects of traders and comparative aspect is carried out for the first time. The study of compared sociolects within the framework of the integrative methodological paradigm is also new.

The article continues the cycle of the authors’ publications devoted to the investigation of specifics of functioning the military terminology in the literary works by the Ukrainian writers. The analysis is directed to learning the system connections of the lexical units of terminology of military affairs in the cinema tale by O. Dovzhenko “Tale of the Fiery Years”, in particular the differentiation according to the thematic groups. Stylistic terminology is one of the most modern trends of Ukrainian terminology of the 21st century. In the analysis it is presented the list of the works which the scientists devote to studying the peculiarities of functioning the terms which are not characteristic of literary texts. The relevance of the article is due, first of all, to the absence of the complex investigations concerning the peculiarities of using the military terms in the works by O. Dovzhenko and the urgent need of the linguistic analysis of the so-called autochthonous texts. The article presents the basic thoughts concerning the definition of the notion “thematic group”, “lexico-semantic subgroup”, the thematic classification of military vocabulary is fulfilled according to the commonly accepted in terminological studying. In the article the authors analyze the military terms in the above mentioned cinema tale and define the specifics of their use in the prose work by the talented Ukrainian writer. The thematic groups, which include the military terms introduced in the text of the cinema tale by the author, are investigated. It is defined the function of this vocabulary in the work which the talented writer adjusted to taking into account the ideal essence, subject matter, art idea which were put into the base of the analyzed cinema tale. The quantitative characteristics of the defined thematic groups allows to clarify the most interesting for the writer lexical units of special vocabulary of the military affairs and also those ones he addresses more rarely.

The research aims to identify universal and specific lexico-phraseological means of representing Russian and British value systems, determined by their denotative correspondence. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the latest publicistic texts (the early 21st century) served as the source of factual material, which makes it possible to identify, systematize, and describe previously unexplored linguistic material. For the first time, a classification of value representatives based on their denotative correspondence, previously developed by the authors based on the Russian language, is used in a comparative study. As a result, it was found that the proposed multifaceted classification of value representatives is invariant for different linguocultures. The developed classification of representatives of material values allowed the researchers to identify both universal and specific features in the value-based linguistic worldviews of Russian and British linguocultures. This specificity is due to the state structure, political system, history, religion, and climatic conditions of the two countries, which, at the language level, is manifested in the different quantitative composition and content of the identified and described thematic groups.

In the current paper, the textual functionality of the system of Douglas Coupland’s literary neologisms is analyzed from the meaning-construction and communicative-pragmatic perspectives. The artistic significance of neologisms is considered in terms of the realization in the novel of such a conceptual metatrope as the principle of “death of concepts”. The paper also focuses on describing the fundamentals of classification of Coupland’s neologisms into lexico-semantic groups and word-formation types. The features of lexical, semantic and phraseological neologisms presented in the novel “Generation X: Tales for an accelerated culture” are described. The creative potential of literary neologisms is studied from the perspective of the reader relying on conceptual blending in meaning construction. It is shown that the thematic development of Douglas Copeland’s novel is determined by the use of complex semantic units consisting of neologisms and their author’s definitions. The reader’s construction of meaning of such semantic units requires, among other things, reliance on the intra-word (word-forming) context, on the macro-context of the novel, and on inferential knowledge drawn from a wider background context. Subjectivity in the reception of neologisms is determined by the development of personal meanings in the process of reading a literary text.