Philological Treatises

8-11

Authors: Anokhina T.

The article opens a brief overview on lacunology as a newborn science, which is adherent to sociolinguistics, nonverbal semiotics and applied linguistics (the object of investigation). The research of lacunology considers the empty places of zero verbalization. The investigation is being conducted in the lingo-cognitive approach in terms of language (i), speech (ii), and speech behavior (iii). The paper is aimed at materializing idea of scientific picture of lacunology and its tomorrow’s vistas. The philosophic triad (to be or not to be, to cognize or not, status of people in cognition) is being solved here positively. There exist white gaps (lacunae) in the world pictures, which with times are cognized and verbalized. Relevant methods are involved. Priority is given to etymological, conceptual, componential, and translation analyses. The choice of methods is determined by the nature of empiric facts and aims to investigate them. The basic metasigns in the lacunicon vicinity make an urgent and actual problem for further investigation. Key words: lacunology, lacunicon, language/speech cognition lacunae, scholars overviews.

20-31

Authors: Dorda V. O.

The research aims to identify the social parameters of American students in the prism the relevant type of slang. During the analysis of the younger generation’s distinctive features from the society in general, the author considers such basic elements as age (19-24), occupation (training and leisure) and the place (university, college). Students are a group of young people who receive higher education which provides them not only with the skills in a particular major, but also conveys the individual socio-cultural values, society culture, and contributes to successful integration into society. The process of socialization is vividly displayed in the American students’ speech, including the usage of slang.). The author analyses the American students as a distinct society with its universal language and lingual features on the basis of defined socio-cultural aspects (autonomy, socialization, self-presentation, the system of value priorities, behavior standards, data interpretation, closedness). Keywords: social parameters, American student slang, socio-cultural aspects.

37-44

Authors: Zatsnyi Y. A., Yankov A. V.

The paper analyses the core of medical vocabulary, its terminology as far as the etymological aspect is concerned. It describes the original sources of formation, semantic evolution and paradigmatic combinability of the core medical vocabulary. Special attention is given to the role played by the elements of classical languages in medical vocabulary both diachronically and synchronically. On the material of modern borrowings operating in medical lexicon, we show that although Greek and Latin roots and morphemes should be regarded the core of medical terminology in English, together with its own (Germanic material) and borrowed from Romanic languages, UNDER CONDITIONS of information revolution terminological system continues the processes of borrowings from modern languages together with borrowings of relevant concepts. Key words: borrowing, core, element, etymology, semantics, terminology.

50-61

Authors: Tatsenko N. V.

The article presents systematization of linguistic interpretations of empathy as a cognitive and affective phenomenon, and representation of different approaches to its explication in modern linguistics. The correlation between emotionality and emotiveness is analyzed in the sphere of empathic communicative interaction within the framework of linguistic emotiology. It has been found out that the categories of expressiveness, intensiveness, emotiveness and evaluativeness are structural components and at the same time determinants of empathy, the presence of which in communication complexes provides rational axiomatic tolerance and efficiency of communication, and realization of empathic implicatures integrating into the phenomenon of verbal representations. Key words: empathy, empathic communication, empathic implicatures, emotiveness, expressiveness, intensiveness, evaluativeness

67-74

Authors: Shchyhlo L. V.

The article deals with the theoretical and methodological framework of integrative approach to the modeling of the translation process from a position of integrative discourse analysis, basing on three phases of the translation process – creative, receptive and recreative that highlights the real se¬mantic dynamics taking place within translation’s literary discourse. Discourse analysis is productive for translation theory only if translation itself is an interdiscourse activity considering both linguistic and extralinguistic factors. Integrative translation studies make it possible to understand the translation process as a kind of cognitive translators’s activity taking into account the creativity of the language personality, as well as a whole range of factors that determine and accompany translation process. The creativity of language personality of a translator refers to an inner resource of a translator that eliminates the stereotypical ways of his thinking and discovers new methods of solving translation problems. Keywords: discourse ontology of translation, discourse analysis, integrative approach, integrative model of translation, language personality of a translator.

85-94

Authors: Kalantayevska G. P.

The article deals with attitude of B. Antonenko-Davydovych to mass passion of students of 1920s for literary work and his opinion about graphomania as one of the displays of such passion. The author considers numerous nationwide character traits, such as respect for antiquity, disposition to heated discussions, contempt for violence and love for freedom, mentioned by the writer; draws attention to the phenomenon of “social entry into literature” by giving examples of various psychological types of untalented beginning poets and self-loving madmen, motives and goals they set, means they use to make editorial offices accept their works. The author points out that B. Antonenko-Davydovych’s derisive tone emphasizes his deep knowledge of human mind, Ukrainian mentality, harmonizes with his satirical attitude to ignorant pen-pushers and compassion for a handful of gifted beginners. The research proves that by applying his method of travel the writer has created a general picture of readership of provincial cities with the spirit of national rebirth, self-development, creative rush and aspiration for knowledge. Key words: national character traits, readership, beginning poet, graphomania, psychological type.

100-107

Authors: Chernysh A. E.

The article is dedicated to genre features of the novel-biography by M. Slaboshpytskiy «Things Recorded in the Life Book: Mychailo Kotsubynskyi» demonstrating new formations in form and text constructions on biographical material. Based on the novel biography of M. Kotsyubynskyi it is found out that originality of the genre «orchestration» of the novel is consonant with stylistic tendencies of this work. The multiplicity of narrative structures leads to self-narration of the hero and other forms of narration such as heteronarration of the author-narrator and homonarration with individual «voices». The chronotope of M. Slaboshpytskyi’s novel «Things Recorded in the Life Book: Mychailo Kotsubynskiy» basically forms the space of native home, Kononovka, Chernihiv and Capri, forming the ragged peculiarity of the arts biography. Intertextuality is presented on the system of different text relationships (paratextuality, metatextuality, arhitextuality). Key words: genre, style, intertext, chronotope, narratology.