Representation of the category of clothing names in American linguoculture (corpus-based research)
https://doi.org/10.37493/2409-1030.2024.4.22
Abstract
Introduction. The category of clothing names is a vast layer of lexical units denoting items of clothing, footwear, headwear, etc., which is an essential artifact of human activity, and it plays a vital role in the history of society and culture. This is one of the main subject categories of human existence, extremely important in cultural and social terms. The purpose of our work is to determine the core of meanings of lexemes – names of clothing in modern American media. The goal is planned to be achieved by solving the following problems: to form a list of nouns – names of clothing relevant to the English-speaking (American) linguoculture; to extract contexts containing the specified names; to analyze the contextual meanings of the selected nouns in the representative linguistic corpus of CNN news texts.
Materials and Methods. The material for the study is the linguistic corpus of CNN news texts (37 864 sentences or 982 107 tokens), collected in the second half of 2023 using the author’s software “Balanced Linguistic Corpus Generator and Corpus Manager” (Certificate of State Registration of Computer Program No. 2023683209, Rospatent). The research methods include inductive analysis (to solve problem 1), corpus experiment (problem 2), and contextual analysis (problem 3).
Analysis. For the three most frequently occurring nouns - shoes, dress, clothes – an analysis of their specific meanings is presented, distributed among headings identified in the course of mental interpretation of contexts.
Results. The frequency of use of 15 lexemes - clothing names in the linguistic corpus of CNN news texts was determined, the dominant meanings of these lexemes were identified, and the author’s translations of the studied contexts were provided. The practical value of the study lies in the fact that the obtained data, as well as the developed analysis methodology, can be used in the study of other categories of subject names in English and other languages.
About the Authors
G. G. BondarchukRussian Federation
Galina G. Bondarchuk - Dr. Sc. (Philology), Professor
38, Ostozhenka St., Moscow, 119034, Russian Federation
A. I. Gorozhanov
Russian Federation
Aleksey I. Gorozhanov - Dr. Sc. (Philology), Associate Professor
38, Ostozhenka St., Moscow, 119034, Russian Federation
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For citations:
Bondarchuk G.G., Gorozhanov A.I. Representation of the category of clothing names in American linguoculture (corpus-based research). Humanities and law research. 2024;11(4):780-787. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.37493/2409-1030.2024.4.22