SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH AXIONOMENS WITH THE AVERAGE DEGREE OF POLYSEMY AS OF VALUABLE CONSTITUENTS OF MODERN ENGLISH ETHNOLINGUISTIC CULTURE
Journal Title: Мова - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 23
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to investigate the nouns denoting national values in their formalized representation on the material of the English language. The subjects of this study are polysemantic axionomens consisting of 6–5 lexical meanings taken from the modern English thesauri. Methodology of the selection comprises of such methods and procedures of lexicological analysis as: step-identification procedure, descriptive and typological methods as well as componental and statistical analysis are used in this linguistic research. Matrix representation of non-material values is the finding of research. It gives an opportunity to describe in detail the structure of lexical meanings of axionouns, to distinguish the degree of their related semantics, to expose the functional character of generalized semes forming definite structures within the framework of analyzed words. In the process of investigation it has been defined that the semantic structure of the every analyzed axionomen is regarded as the individual system of lexical meanings organized under certain rules. The practical value of the research is to use the results of it to optimize the processes of learning English lingual and cultural peculiarities, as well as for perspective fundamental studies of all lexical and semantic sub-systems of the value paradigms of the Ukrainian, English and French language societies.
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Tetyana V. SOROKA
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