Tematic Organization of Military Terminology (The Film “The Tale of Ardent Years” by O. Dovzenko)

Abstract

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.