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ENGLISH GROUP TERMS AS A PART OF THE WORLD VIEW: PROBLEMS OF CATEGORIZING AND NAMING

ENGLISH GROUP TERMS AS A PART OF THE WORLD VIEW: PROBLEMS OF CATEGORIZING AND NAMING


Author:  Sergayeva Yu.V.

Affiliation:  Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen

Abstract:  English collective nouns are taken as source material to analyze semantic, lexical and pragmatic means of their creating as well as to elicit the factors determining a nominator’s choice in group terms. The article emphasizes the peculiarity of English group terms as a special subclass capable of creative and productive expansion.

Keywords:  categorizing, lexical creativity, nomination, motivation, pragmatic choice in naming, collective nouns, group names, semantic derivation

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Pages:  665-667

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