Nominative Field Research Articles

Functioning of Conceptual Metaphor in Shaping Image of Iraq in Regional and Federal Media in Germany

This comparative study examines the role of conceptual metaphorization as a means of shaping the image of Iraq in regional and federal media in Germany from 2019 to 2024. The analysis focuses on the frequency of metaphors, the magnitude and dominant features of the nominative field of metaphors, semantic and part-of-speech properties of metaphor representatives, and the salient characteristics of the country as components of its image, along with paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships. It identifies both stable and variable patterns of metaphorization across the two groups of media. The study highlights recurring metaphors such as “Iraq as a Living Being,” “Iraq as an Incomplete Whole,” “Iraq as a Place of Uncontrolled Power,” “Iraq as a Warrior,” “Iraq as a Theater,” “Iraq as a Toy,” and “Iraq as a Refuge.” The findings conclude the effectiveness of conceptual metaphor as a tool for stereotyping; similarities in the composition of metaphors despite differences in their frequency and density across various German media; a predominance of complex, structural, and ontological metaphors; and the presence of compatible and coherent metaphors. Notably, there is an interdependence between the frequency and density of the nominative field of metaphors, with higher density observed in federal media; stability in terms of the part-of-speech affiliation of representatives and dominance of noun representatives; predominant overlap in the dominant features of nominative fields across different media groups; and the existence of metaphors with varying degrees of conventionality.

Метафорическая концептуализация экономических отношений в публицистическом дискурсе финансово-экономической нестабильности (на материалах англоязычных публикаций, отражающих кризис потолка госдолга в США в 2023 г.)

The article examines the metaphorical conceptualization of a crisis economic situation in mass media discourse. The article looks at the metaphorical representation of economic relationships in the period of financial uncertainty caused by the inflation and the debt ceiling crisis in the USA in 2023. The aim of the research is to determine and describe the most relevant metaphorical models depicting the economic phenomena in the given historical period. The scientific novelty lies in describing the ways of metaphorical conceptualization of economic relationships in mass media discourse brought to life by new empirical data of the debt ceiling crisis. The research findings include describing the most relevant metaphorical models that depict the economic phenomena in the articles of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist; determining the nominative field of the target concept ECONOMY; extending the corpus of metaphors from crisis discourse and identifying the primary functions of the metaphors used in the texts under the study.

Кодовая паремиологическая когнитивная модель концепта МИЛОСЕРДИЕ в английском и русском языках

The research aims to determine the characteristics of constructing code-based paremiological cognitive models of the MERCY concept in the non-cognate language formats of English and Russian worldviews. The scientific novelty lies in identifying the architecture of code-based paremiological cognitive models representing the culturally marked spectrum of the nominative field of the MERCY concept in English and Russian, in constructing classifications of code-based cognitive models in the paremiological stocks of non-cognate languages, in determining the differences in the functioning of code-based paremiological cognitive models of the MERCY concept in the formats of English and Russian linguistic worldviews, and in enriching the scientific thesaurus of cognitive linguistics with such concepts as “a code-based paremiological cognitive model”, “the paremiological polarization of the code format of a cognitive model”. As a result, it has been proved that the functioning of code-based paremiological cognitive models in English and Russian linguistic worldviews occurs along similar and different lines. The similarity is manifested in the presence of models such as “mercy – God”, “mercy – help”, “mercy – truth”, while the difference is seen in the frequency of nominations of code models. Among the latter, the models “mercy – cruelty”, “mercy – forgiveness”, and “mercy – truth” prevail in the English paremiological stock. At the same time, the models “mercy – God”, “mercy – soul/heart”, “mercy – good” predominate in the Russian paremiological stock. The development and introduction of a new approach to interpreting the paremiological stock through the construction of code-based paremiological cognitive models enriches the theoretical and methodological basis of modern cognitive linguistics.

The nominative field of the WOMEN’S CLOTHING concept as an object of study in diachronic conceptology (based on the French language)

The nominative field of the WOMEN’S CLOTHING concept as an object of study in diachronic conceptology (based on the French language)

THE IMPACT OF THE ETYMOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE CONSTITUENTS OF THE CONCEPT LANGUAGE POLICY ON THE FORMATION OF A CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR

The article is dedicated to the study of the semantic features of the constituent lexemes language and policy in the English worldview, which are analysed as components of the concept LANGUAGE POLICY, as well as the peculiarities of their influence on the formation of aconceptual metaphor. It has been established that the word combination language policy is rarely found in general language dictionaries, so it is appropriate to study its lexemes-constituents by their origin in order to find out how their cognitive components interact with each other. 17 and 22 definitions of the lexeme-constituents language and policy have been analysed, respectively. It is noted that the cognitive component a course of action of the lexeme-constituent policy explains the meaning of policy as directed actions on this or that issue. Cognitive components body of words; body of methods of combination of words and used by a nation, people, or race of the lexemes-constituent language explain language as a grouping of words, methods of their combination used by people. It has been established that the expediency of such an analysis consists in a detailed study of the verbalizers of the nominative field of the concept LANGUAGE POLICY. This requires a comprehensive analysis of the concept, taking into account qualitative and quantitative studies. Several conceptual metaphors are identified such as ECOLOGY, LANGUAGE PLANNING IS AN ORGAN, LANGUAGE IS STATUS, LANGUAGE IS FIGHT,MULTILINGUALISM IS MOSAIC, MULTILINGUALISM IS CONSTELLATION and LANGUAGE IS A FLOWER.It was noted that the etymological analysis of the combination of lexemes-constituents narrowed the meaning of lexemes in such a combination, which affected the LANGUAGE POLICY conceptual metaphor.

FREQUENT CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS BY THE FORMATION OF THE IRAQ IMAGE IN THE GERMAN FEDERAL MEDIA

The conceptual metaphor as a linguistic phenomenon defining our perception and evaluation has a rich research tradition. Against the background of modern selective ideologized information and information fatigue of the mass addressee, interest in conceptual metaphor as a tool for discursive construction of social reality, including the formation and replication of the media image of the country, its stereotyping, is increasing. The purpose of the study is to identify the leading conceptual metaphors in the formation of the image of Iraq in the German federal media, to characterize their nominative fields, to identify the features they introduce into the portrait of the country. Methodology. The material of the analysis is the publications of the German federal media devoted to Iraq in the period from 2019 to the present. The object of the analysis is the contexts selected by the continuous sampling method for the implementation of frequency conceptual metaphors. Contextual, definitional analysis and quantitative calculations are used. Results. As the main conceptual metaphors involved in the formation of the image of Iraq, the metaphors "Iraq is a place of uncontrolled power", "Iraq is a living being", "Iraq is an incomplete whole", "Iraq is a theater" are highlighted. The first metaphor is dominant in terms of frequency and density of the nominative field; the least productive is the last of the named metaphors. Metaphors are implemented by constituents of certain semantic fields, and they introduce significant features into the created portrait of the country. Practical implications. The results obtained contribute to the further development of imagology, the study of discursive, metaphorical construction of reality, the relationship of mental, linguistic and social processes; they can be used in the training of specialists in the field of political communication, monitoring of media and social processes, and can also be useful to political technologists.

Номинативное поле концепта МОШЕННИК в русской языковой картине мира

The purpose of the study is to identify, based on the material of substantive vocabulary, the core of the nominative field of the concept of FRAUDSTER in the framework of modeling the cognitive structure of the situation of fraudulent interaction. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that in it the phenomenon of fraud is studied for the first time in the aspect of its linguocognitive interpretation – as a conceptual field with a propositional structure. The article defines and analyzes for the first time the lexical and semantic paradigms of nominations of persons involved in a fraudulent act. As a result, a variety of substances objectifying the phenomenon of fraud has been revealed. The high productivity of the fraudster's designations by type of activity in the modern media space was noted. A wide range of multilevel linguistic units has been found, marking the "falsity", "imaginary" social status of a fraudster. The active updating of the composition of lexical and semantic groups under the influence of extralinguistic factors, in particular the processes of digitalization of modern society, has been revealed. For the first time, collocations reflecting the associative rapprochement of a fraudster with other offenders in the Russian language consciousness are analyzed. The high pragmatic potential of the substantives forming the nominative field of the concept of FRAUDSTER is substantiated.

«Сердце» как универсальный психический концепт (на примере китайской и русской языковой картины мира)

The article examines the concept ‘heart’ in the semantic-and-cognitive aspect, identifies nominative components with subsequent comparison of the content in Russian and Chinese. The author proposes an analysis of this concept conducted separately for the zones of correlation and cultural suggestion. The zone of language correlation was studied through an analysis of the internal form of lexemes containing the component ‘heart’ as well as a component analysis of mental vocabulary, which showed the presence of an invariant hyperseme ‘heart’. In Chinese, the correlation zone was studied in accordance with the presence of the component within a hieroglyph or as part of an indivisible combination of hieroglyphs. The suggestion zone was analyzed based on paroemias and phraseological units. The study showed a high level of universality of the conceptual field. However, there are a number of differences established in the linguistic pictures of the world (in the formal structure of the lexicosemantic system): different positions of the ‘heart’ component in some lexemes and combinations; the implicitness and explicitness of the component do not always coincide; there can be difference in the style-related use of the concept. ‘Heart’ is a concept functioning as a hyperonym of the whole set of mental vocabulary in both Chinese and Russian. The study refutes the statements that in the Russian language there is no pronounced mental component in the concept ‘heart’ and that ‘heart’ does not form metaphors associated with soil and plants, which is observed in Chinese. The article clarifies the translation of the dictionary entry ‘heart’ in Chinese. The author has identified and compared the nuclear and peripheral zones of the concept, established the central importance of ‘heart’ in the conceptualization of mental processes. The nuclear zone is polystructural, it consists of the components thoughts,feelings, desires. Each of the components is able to form a separate semantic field. The peripheral zone is represented by the components pity, anger, memory, like-mindedness, speech not out loud, and others. The frequency-value structure of the nominative field coincides in the two languages. The study was conducted based on the material of 2,000 mental lexemes, 100 phraseological units and proverbs, contexts of the Russian language with the element ‘heart’, 200 phraseological units, 200 lexemes with the implicit component ‘heart’ as well as expanded and minimum contexts of the Chinese language selected from dictionaries and Internet sources. The article contains about 60 Chinese phraseological units with the component ‘heart’ and their translation into Russian, which could also be of interest to researchers studying related topics. The practical significance of the research lies in the possibility of using the material in explanatory and ideographic lexicography related to mental vocabulary and phraseology as well as in courses on the Russian language for foreigners and in the theory of translation.

КОНЦЕПТОСФЕРА НОВГОРОДСКОГО ТЕКСТА: К ПОСТАНОВКЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ

The purposr of the article is to provide a preliminary analysis of the main problems and questions regarding the construction of a model of the conceptosphere of the Novgorod text in Russian literature. The conceptosphere of local texts has recently been the subject of considerable research, with each specific locus applying the model of a "collection of concepts" (defined by D.S. Likhachev, who introduced the term "conceptosphere") in a unique variant specific to that locus. However, the scientific validity of the model is justified not only by the support of precedent texts of local literature but also by the universal nature of approaches to describing the conceptosphere of a local text, regardless of the chosen locus of study. This universal model includes the concepts of a nuclear (basic) concept, a nominative field of concepts, the center and periphery of semantic fields of concepts in a local text, their hierarchically organized system (conceptosphere) and others. The Novgorod text requires the construction of a model of its conceptosphere as one of the most enriched local texts in Russian literature.

CONCEPT “MAN”: LEXICAL-AND-SEMANTIC ASPECT

Problem statement. The article presents lexical-and-semantic analysis of the anthropological concept “MAN” in the philosophical discourse of F. Bacon. The research is aimed at revealing lexical means of verbalization of the concept “MAN” in the philosophical works of F. Bacon, determine the features of its nominative field, which belong to its nuclear and peripheral areas and to analyze frame structure of the concept. Special attention is paid to the contents of the frame “properties of man” in terms of the correlation of the intellectual, sensual and spiritual components and their basic features. The research is aimed at detailed analysis of the frame “properties of man”. Research results. The features of the nucleus of the concept “MAN” are: “sociocentricity”, “individuality”, “specificity”, “commonality”, “high moral qualities”. The near-nucleus area of the concept “MAN” is represented by the features: “category of planetary scale”, “equality”, “unity”, “integrity”. Far periphery area of the concept “MAN” is structured by the following features: “mental abilities”, “sensual and ethical abilities”, “power”, “determination”, “productivity”, “maturity and self-awareness”, “empirical abilities”. Conclusion. Nominative field of the concept ”MAN” in the philosophical discourse of F. Bacon is structured by three frames, representing features, functions and nature of man. Frame “nature of man” contains the following slots: “intellectual abilities”, “sensual abilities” and “spiritual abilities”of man. The largest number of features (positive, negative and neutral) is included in the slot “intellectual abilities” of man. Slot “sensual abilities” represents the features of “ineffectiveness” and “imperfection of nature” of the concept. Slot “spiritual abilities” contains the features of “superiority” and “priority”. The key components of the anthropological nature in the picture of the world of F. Bacon are mind and intellect.

The Nominative Field of HAPPINESS Concept in the Middle English and Modern English Periods

Introduction. The article presents the result of the diachronical research of HAPPINESS concept nominative field. The research was conducted on the basis of English explanatory dictionaries and texts of corpus databases, using the methods of corpus linguistics. The relevance of the research is due to the insufficient development of the theoretical foundations for studying the evolution of nominations and components of the concept under study, and the development of corpus linguistics as one of the most relevant ways of studying concepts.Methodology and sources. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is formed by cognitive linguistics studies by N.N. Boldyrev, Y.S. Stepanov, E.S. Kubryakova, E.A. Nielsen, Z.D. Popova, I.A. Sternin; conceptology studies, in particular, emotional concepts, and emotiology studies by N.A. Krasavsky, V.I. Shakhovsky and O.E. Filimonova. The empirical material of the study is based on the texts of English corpus databases, as well as articles of English explanatory and etymological dictionaries.Results and discussion. Based on the method of constructing the nominative field described by Popova and Sternin and using the material of English explanatory dictionaries for the Middle and Modern English, the core of HAPPINESS concept is revealed. Based on the texts of English corpus databases, using corpus linguistics methods, as well as the collocation search model compiled by the author, the concept’s nominative field’s peripheral components are identified. Based on the analysis, the proposed changes in the composition of the nominative field of the concept in diachrony are revealed.Conclusion. In conclusion, the results of the analysis of the nominative field of HAPPINESS concept are presented, and the provisions on the nature of the development of the concept in diachrony are put forward.

The Artificial Intelligence Ideologeme in the Multimodal IT Marketing Discourse: A Corpus-Assisted Study

The article focuses on investigating the specifics of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) ideologeme in the website discourse of software vendors. The material of the study is the website discourse of Microsoft. The linguo-conceptual and discursive analyses have resulted in identifying the most frequent lexemes in dictionary entries and constructing the nominative field of the AI concept. We have carried out a corpus-assisted study of the linguistic representation of the AI ideologeme in the Microsoft discourse using AntConc and extracted keywords and collocations, including metaphorical ones, which make the ideologeme explicit through keywords such as responsible, businesses, change, etc., collocations: AI-ready culture, AI-human partnership, etc., metaphors based on the actions of living beings such as drive, dive, etc. The keywords and collocations create the intention-driven positive ideologeme of AI as a phenomenon regulated by competent bodies and empowering businesses to drive the positive change, along with amplifying the capabilities of human beings. The nonverbal means of the AI ideologeme have been described within the representative and interactive dimensions such as pictures of living beings, colors of nature such as green and blue, and metaphorical perspectives contributing to the discursive affinity of AI and nature. The corpus-assisted study has resulted in identifying the discursive representation of the AI ideologeme which is different from that of the dictionary entries describing AI as a machine capability to copy the human behavior.

Concept of the Moon in the Yakut Language World View

The article defines the concept of the moon in the traditional Yakut world view at the levels of language, myth and ritual. It is common knowledge that the Yakuts are the northernmost Turks who have largely preserved the mental representations of the Southern Siberia Turks’ ethnocultural heritage. National world view features in the nominations of the concept moon related to space and time cultural paradigm, representing the mythopoetic picture of the world, have been established. The archaic features of this concept, set phrases, and oral folk art have been considered. The relevance of this research lies in the conceptualization of the verbal culture of the Sakha people. The purpose of the article is to identify linguistic and cultural features of the concept moon in the Yakut language world view. The article uses a cognitive approach, contextual and syntagmatic analysis of word connection as well as the method of conceptual analysis. The cosmological representation of the Universe among the Yakuts is given through the archaic metaphor of a leather vessel with numerical and spatial symbols. The moon is projected in conjunction with the sun as a trace of an early form of deity worship. It has an ambivalent function that affects the fate that generates birth/death. In connection with this understanding, various verbal and non-verbal ritual actions have arisen. The space and time paradigm in the oral tradition has given rise to various names for the calculus of time. In analyzing the nominative field of the concept moon, its universal and national components have been revealed. Among the lexical units that form the concept moon in the Sakha language, one can distinguish riddles that emphasize the roundness of its shape, symbolizing the cyclicity of life – the idea of eternal birth. It has such basic signs as large/pale/white/moving, the somatic code of which is manifested in the symbolic use of the eye. When comparing fairy tales, similar and distinctive motifs associated with the image of the girl on the moon have been revealed.

THE THEME OF NEGATION IN THE VERBALIZED FIELD OF THE CONCEPT OF LAZINESS

The article is focused on the peculiarities of the verbalization of LAZINESS concept. The relevance of the paper is determined by the fact that the priority direction of linguistic cognitivism is currently the study of verbalized concepts. Conceptualization as one of the main processes of human cognitive activity is aimed at understanding information in the person’s mind in order to reveal the content of concepts. The purpose of the article is an exhaustive definition of the verbal means of actualizing the theme of negation, compiling a list of defining features that actualize this negation in the verbalized field of the LAZINESS concept. In the paper, semes are considered to be the smallest components of the nominative field, it is emphasized that with the help of splitting the seme into its components, the detailed seme composition of a concept is formed and described. 456 definitions of 21 adjectives in 8 dictionaries have been analyzed. The data were subjected to further definitional analysis, which has demonstated the leading role of the semantic component of the denial of something, the absence of something. In the course of the research, a synonymous series of English lexemes, mainly adjectives united by the theme of lazy, was formed, luding the adjective lazy, as well as words that dictionaries define as its synonyms. The article analyzes the definitions of the lexical unit lazy in English-language specialized dictionaries; the seme analysis of the semantic parcel of negation as part of the nominative field of the verbalized concept of LAZINESS has been carried out. It has turned out that half of the analyzed dictionary definitions have in their composition the negation of a certain quality, state, action. This negation is verbalized by the particle not, the noun lack or participle lacking, the particle no, the preposition without, the prefixes in- and un-, the suffix -less, the prefix dis-, the adjective averse, the prefix ir-, the adverb less, the prefix non-, and the pronoun nothing. The article offers the quantitative representation of the negation seme in the definitions of adjectives-synonyms of the seme LAZY.

CONCEPT LANGUAGE POLICY: PECULIARITIES OF THE NOMINATIVE FIELD AND NOMINATIVE SPACE

This work is dedicated to the theoretical analysis within the framework of a comprehensive study of the verbalization of the concept LANGUAGE POLICY. Some aspects of the analysis of the nominative field and nominative space are presented. The definition of the phenomenon of nominative space is not often found in scientific studies, it is usually compared with the phenomenon of nominative field or equated to it. The vast majority of works are dedicated to the establishment and study of the nominative field of the concept. It is necessary to compare the theoretical component of the phenomena of the nominative field and the nominative space, as well as provide its own definition of the phenomenon of the nominative space.

ON COGNITIVE MODELS OF VIRTUAL SPACE AND REAL SPACE IN MULTICULTURAL FICTION

The present paper focuses on the cognitive modelling of literary text space. The aim of the research was to conduct a comparative study of the cognitive proxemic models of the subconcepts “virtual space” and “real space”, as represented in the multicultural novel «Walking in Two Worlds» by W. Kinew. In accordance with E.A. Ogneva’s research, a cognitive model of literary text space is defined as a construct which demonstrates the correlation between various constituents of the nominative field of the literary concept “space”, which is perceived and comprehended by the reader. The term “proxeme” is used to denote a word or a word combination that is semantically related to parameters of space. The article presents data on the quantitative relation between the types of thematic proxemic models which comprise the nominative field of the literary subconcepts “virtual space” and “real space”, namely, models of personalised anthropocentrically marked literary text space, models of non-personalised anthropocentrically marked literary text space, as well as those of non-personalised anthropocentrically unmarked literary text space. For each of the abovementioned categories of proxemic models the most common types of proxemes are identified. In addition to this, the representation of dynamic literary text space and the spatial axes is examined. The results obtained highlight the qualitative differences between the significance of the virtual literary text space and the real literary text space, as conceived by the author of the novel. Despite the fact that the characters perceive real life as less salient and important than their performance in the virtual space, the real literary text space turns out to be more intense in terms of human activity than the virtual literary text space and, therefore, not less meaningful, whereas the virtual text space is represented as an environment conducive to creativity alongside revival and/or preservation of traditional culture.

Тематические группы русских эвфемизмов об употреблении алкоголя

The aim of the study is to present a thematic classification of euphemisms forming the nominative field ‘alcohol consumption’ taking into account the referent they denote – the aspect of the drinking situation. The paper considers the semantics of euphemistic nominations of alcoholic topics, determines the quantitative ratio of units in different thematic groups, establishes the stylistic nuance of euphemisms. The study is novel in that it is the first to identify, systematise and describe the Russian euphemisms of alcoholic topics presented in the “Dictionary of Euphemisms of the Russian Language” by E. P. Senichkina (2008) by means of semantic, stylistic and quantitative analysis. As a result, it has been proved that euphemisms of the nominative field ‘alcohol consumption’ form eight thematic groups corresponding to the referents of the drinking situation, namely: 1) nominations of the process of alcohol consumption; 2) characteristics of a drinking person; 3) nominations of alcoholic drinks; 4) nominations of alcohol containers; 5) nominations of a place for drinking alcohol; 6) nominations of the state of intoxication; 7) nominations of the amount of the alcohol drunk; 8) nominations of the motives for alcohol consumption.

ENGLISH CONCEPT LORD: SECULAR, RELIGIOUS AND ARTISTIC ASPECTS OF STUDY

The article presents an analysis of the linguocultural and cultural-historical aspects of the functioning and verbalization of the English concept LORD. Our research is based on the study of the semantic content of the concept presented in its key nomination lord. The purpose of our study was to identify the main factors and directions of the development of the concept. The object of the study is the nature and principles of the increase in the concept, its transformation under the influence of cultural and historical factors, ideological and artistic ideas, as well as the actual linguistic principles of transformations of the lexical unit lord representing it. The subject of the study is lexicographic data, semantic characteristics of the lexeme lord. By studying the functioning of the lexeme representing the concept in the secular, religious and artistic linguo-cultural planes and the corresponding semantic transformations on the basis of the analyzed lexicographic sources, the nominative field of the English-language concept LORD is modeled. During the study, we came to the following results. The lexeme lord is the central term of the cultural concept LORD — the lord, the ruler and master, the vicegerent of God on earth or God Himself. The considered concept is a multi-tiered system that covers the attitude of the representatives of the English linguistic community to the vital spheres of their existence: religious, social class or artistic and figurative affiliation. The semantic content of the lexeme has expanded over the centuries, and the lexeme began to serve as a nomination in two different planes of social models of the world: religious and secular. All pre-Christian accumulation and all chronologically coinciding pre-Christian representations of the concept act as the basic charge for the embodiment of the Christian idea of denoting God, which, since the 12th century, has borrowed the tradition of treating God as the Lord, and to the lords as the Lord’s vicars on earth. The plane of the ideological priority meaning of this lexeme in the Christian picture of the world as an appeal to the Lord, universal for European cultures, remains only one “pole” of the concept consideration. The second meaning, which is included in the nuclear zone of the nominative field of the key lexeme, denoting the concept, incorporates a purely national, English concept. This semantic part of the concept is due to the sphere of secular ideas, which are more mundane in the conceptual and linguistic pictures of the world. This meaning acts as an independent nuclear subsphere containing a reference to a specific, ethnically dependent reality — a courtesy title, an ethnic identifier. Conclusions: Due to its conceptual «insecurity», the concept LORD is far from being a stable system. The process of conceptualization of its key nomination lord continues for objective reasons — the influence of new cultural trends, including the heroes of popular books and cinema, political transformations, leading figures who have and receive the title of lord.

ВЕРБАЛІЗАЦІЯ КОНЦЕПТІВ ВІЙНА, МИР, ЖІНКА, ЧОЛОВІК У ГАЗЕТНОМУ ДИСКУРСІ УКРАЇНИ У ВОЄННИЙ ПЕРІОД

The article examines the semantic field of the concepts war, peace, woman, man and the means of their verbalization in the newspaper discourse of Ukraine during the war period. It was established that the researched concepts have a complex structure and a branched nominative field. One of the significant linguistic resources of the linguistic representation of conceptual units in journalism is artistic imagery, because it is tropes that convey cultural meanings in a special way: through mentality, ontology, stereotypes, the modern artistic dimension of the representation of the present. Thanks to the tropeic constructions, the authors emphasize the individual vision of certain realities of modern military life, single out the essential features, signs of the personality, the described object or phenomenon. No matter which journalists choose the language means of expressing their creativity, their function is mainly aimed at addressing new concepts and phenomena related to the full-scale war in Ukraine, and also, taking into account the interest of readers, not only to increase the information literacy of the recipients, but also to cause excessive emotionality and encourage to react to the journalistic text, to critically interpret the described current events. It has been proven that in newspaper discourse media workers achieve a high degree of emotional coloring and expression thanks to the use of profanity to denote the enemy, because newspaper texts have accumulated folk wisdom, national characteristics, and moral-ethical, philosophical views in the process of verbalizing the semantic field of concepts of war, peace, woman, man. That is why, for an objective understanding of conceptual units, we used an integrative approach, which involves the synergy of linguistic, psychological, and cultural understanding. So, it can be argued that authors use many means of verbalization, which are implemented at different language levels: lexical, grammatical, and word-forming, all in order to impress the reader and draw attention to their article.

Структурно-семантическая характеристика производных глаголов движения в немецком языке

The aim of the research is to identify and describe the structural, semantic and functional features of derivative verbs of motion with derivational suffixes of the directional meaning in the German language. The scientific novelty of the work lies in taking a holistic approach to the study of the ways of dynamic relations explication. Carrying out a component analysis, the paper is the first to identify the semantic features of functioning of the German derivative units belonging to the lexico-semantic group ‘Motion’ in syntagmatic structures based on the correlation of ‘verbs of motion with the verbal components-particles of prepositional and adverbial character of the directional semantics + a prepositional/non-prepositional construction’ with the causators of the initial, intermediate and final points of motion. The research findings have shown that the nominative field of spatial-directional relations consists of 12 propositional models and word-formation categories, the constitutive components of which are word-formation types (series of word-formation types) with a certain degree of productivity, as well as a connotative and collocational potential. In addition, German verbal particles of directional semantics demonstrate nominative independence and, as a result, affect the processes of text generation. It has been found that the influence of the studied suffixes on the content structure of the motivating word forms two types of word-formation meanings: the modifying meaning, which includes the modifying-amplifying one, and the mutational meaning, which includes the neutralizing one.