EXTRALINGUISTIC INFLUENCE ON THE NOMINATION PROCESS

Abstract

Statement of the problem. The author proceeds from the idea that the study of the mechanisms of lexical nomination should be carried out taking into account the influence of extralinguistic factors on the linguistic means correlated with them. This article is devoted to the study of the nomination in Australian slang determined by extralinguistic factors. The author notes that there is no direct correspondence between the events taking place in the social life of people and the emergence of new linguistic phenomena. Neoplasms in the language are stipulated by the language structure. The aim of the work is to show how the events taking place in the country and the world are reflected in the nominative process of Australian slang. Results. The subject of the study was 1174 vocabulary units of Australian slang, which were analyzed in a diachronic way from the point of view of extralinguistic impact on the ways of creating new words. This study revealed the dependence of the nominative activity in Australian slang on a complex of external influences. So, at the initial stage of the development of Australian slang there could be traced two mechanisms of nomination, these are borrowing from aboriginal dialects and the creation of new lexico-semantic variants of borrowed words. Later, under the influence of significant events that took place in the country (the expulsion of convicts from Great Britain to Australia, increased sea traffic between the green continent and the outside world, gold digging, World wars I and II, strengthening contacts with other English-speaking states, the development of sports), the arsenal of nominative mechanisms in Australian slang gradually expanded. This was also facilitated by the deepening of relationships between people in Australian society. As a result, today, the inventory of lexico-nominative mechanisms in Australian slang is quite extensive including: the creation of new lexical-semantic variants of words, the creation of set phrases, borrowing, compounding, suffixation, truncation of the stems of words, supplemented by suffixation, contraction and pragmatonymy. Conclusion. This study revealed the dependence of nominative activity in the field of Australian slang on a complex of historically formed and currently emerging external influences. The article shows lexico-nominative mechanisms operating in different historical epochs under the influence of extralinguistic factors.