Linguistics

The article examines the role of key words in the titles of literary works on the basis of the novel Strangers by a contemporary British writer Anita Brookner. Being one of the strong positions of a text, a title makes a given work of verbal art notable and draws the reader’s attention to it. Placing the key word of a literary work in such strong position increases its aesthetic potential. The linguopoetic analysis of the keyword stranger was supported by the use of Sketch Engine, a computer program that works with text corpora.

The object of the study is pragmatonyms-names of dental products. As the subject of study the word-formation aspect is considered. The aim is to identify the ways of how the pragmatonyms are formed, taking into account their specific nature – the intermediate position between consumer goods and medical goods. In the course of research it was established that there is a correlation between the special position of dental pragmatonyms among other products, on the one hand, and medical products, on the other hand, and the specific nature of the ways of their formation.

The article presents a methodology of lexicographic profiling developed by Y. D. Apresyan, applied for a comprehensive description of meaningful linguistic properties of words, exemplified by the pronominal form “togo”, whose lexicographic portrait is not represented in any current dictionary of homonyms.

The metaphoric nature of proverbs is one of their characteristic features making them figurative, emotional and memorable. The article deals with the English proverbs based on zoomorphic metaphors that result from the man’s observation of domestic animals. Using the method of continuous sampling we have selected from the English paremiological fund about a thousand English proverbs containing zoomorphic metaphors. Further quantitative analysis has shown a high percentage of metaphoric images of agricultural animals – a horse, a pig, a sheep, etc.