Abstract
Given that connotative components cause the appearance of new lexical-semantic variants in the token's semantic field and create opportunities for metaphorical, metonymic, ironic nomination, it is essential to analyze the phenomenon of conotema, which is present in phraseological and paremiological units of language, slang, and occasionalisms. The work aims to study the phenomenon of connotation in a comparative aspect, through the prism of English and Ukrainian languages, as well as to identify key issues of modern research of this phenomenon. The object of research is the connotation in the comparative aspect. The following methods were used during the research: analysis and synthesis, observation, method of definitive analysis, method of linguistic description of linguistic facts, comparative method. As a result of the research, the phenomenon of connotation in the comparative aspect is analyzed, based on the materials of the Ukrainian and English languages, and also the problematic aspects of the interlanguage comparison are singled out. It was also noted that it is crucial to promote a more in-depth study of connotations in psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnopsychology, linguoculturology, as this approach provides an opportunity to improve the methodology of research of connotations in the lexicological field.
Highlights
Connotation is a phenomenon that covers the sphere of associative-image representation of a certain reality based on awareness of the internal mechanisms of the name
A comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of connotation and clarification of its problematic aspects at the present stage examined connotations in Ukrainian and English through a comparative aspect and found that the basis for their linguistic embodiment are figurative, evaluative, emotional, and expressive components of conothemes that have cognitive and emotional character, and in the process of an embodiment of connotation in speech situations they are layered with additional components of the semantic structure of the word, which have ethnocultural or sociocultural nature
Scholars studying the linguistic theory of connotation study different language levels: lexical, lexico-grammatical, word-forming, stylistic, communicative, the components of which are components of connotative meaning
Summary
Connotation is a phenomenon that covers the sphere of associative-image representation of a certain reality based on awareness of the internal mechanisms of the name. Given that in the process of identifying the basis for the emergence of connotative shades of lexical meanings of words, their bilateral nature is clarified, it is vital to examine the associative and emotional vectors of the mechanism of such connections. A comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of connotation and clarification of its problematic aspects at the present stage examined connotations in Ukrainian and English through a comparative aspect and found that the basis for their linguistic embodiment are figurative, evaluative, emotional, and expressive components of conothemes that have cognitive and emotional character, and in the process of an embodiment of connotation in speech situations they are layered with additional components of the semantic structure of the word, which have ethnocultural or sociocultural nature. No less diverse are the definition of connotation and the ability of connotations to form a single sociolinguistic-psychological connotative model of meaning, since connotation is mostly
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