Respondent
Theme
Terms in the individual style of a scholar (based on philological works of Prof. Ivan Denysiuk)
Defence Date
Annotation
Special aspects of the scholar’s individual style are defined in the thesis by
analysing literary and non-literary terms functioning in the philological works of Ivan
Denysiuk. Various approaches to the dimension of a linguistic persona, which
combines linguistic, psychological, social factors and opens new possibilities for
further study of functional characteristics of a language and language activity were
analysed. The understanding of an author’s individual style in literary and scientific
text is summarized. Term unit (TU) is one of keynotes of individual style of scientific
texts by Ivan Denysiuk. This statement determined the logic of our research and its
structure.
The theoretical background in respect of a literary term was considered.
Literary terms bear not only nominative load but also convey aesthetic information
and assess literary phenomena. Aesthetic assessment, in one way or other, is
connected to the problem of term connotation, which sometimes becomes a
pronounced keynote in the field of literary studies. Literary term is characterized with
ambiguity; low level of unification; connotativity; «openness» i.e. it is open to other
term systems; direct dependence on a context; term is in a close contact with the
individual style of a writer, scholar. Consequently, terms used in literary works do
not often change completely but become «overgrown» by new meanings. The present
work outlines unique features of literary TUs «lexicographical dimensions». The
analysis of literary TUs in scholar’s philological works was performed. Literary
terms present in the scientific heritage of I. Denysiuk were split according to thematic
fields as follows: «Literature and Literary Studies: basic concepts», «Genology»,
«Text Poetics», «Literary and Publishing process». The analysis of motivation of new
literary TUs, attributed to the scholar, was performed based on the onomasiological
approach to motivation, where the definition of motivation is related to the concept of
the motivational indicator. The grammatical structure of literary terms as well as their
genologic characteristics were described.
Extradomain and general scientific terms as well as patterns of their
functioning in scholar’s philological texts were analysed. Regular indicators of
general scientific TUs functioning in literary text were considered. It was defined that
general scientific terms undergo a kind of adaptation in a literary context. Such TUs
do not lose their meaning; the scholar uses general scientific meaning of a term in
combination with literary one. General scientific TUs often become one of the
multiple components of a complex TU, at that, there are several characteristic
features of their functioning traced: as a rule, they become one of the main
components and if the number of such components increases, their general scientific
character becomes cancelled out. In the texts by Ivan Denysiuk the organizational
function of general term in the context of literary semantic field was outlined. The
analysis of functioning of TUs taken from other (not artistic) term systems in literary
texts was performed. Literary TUs that underwent determinologization in the process
of actualization lose term meaning. Frequently, such TUs preserve their lexical
meaning and are actively used as components of metaphorical expressions when the
scholar presents his main arguments. The analysis of scientific texts afforded grounds
to conclude that there exists a problem in determining the term meaning in respect of
non-literary TUs. The reasons for this are as follows: when used TUs pertain to
various spheres of human activity, and «irregularity» of term meaning losing or
preserving by such TUs due to the influence of a figurative language.
Key words: Ukrainian terminology; term unit; term system; term motivation;
linguistic persona; individual style; determinologization; literary term; extradomain
term; general scientific term.