REFERENCIAL-EVALUATIVE SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH WORD COMPOUNDS CONTAINING THE COMPONET ‘WAR’
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https://doi.org/10.31861/gph2026.858-859.55-66Keywords:
war language, word compounds containing the component “war”, semantic–typological analysis, intension, extension, denotation, connotation, wartime discourseAbstract
The study investigates the referential–evaluative semantics of English word compounds containing the component “war”. The relevance stems from the need to understand how multi-component units ensure referential precision while shaping evaluative–imagistic perspectives in discourse. The aim is to differentiate the referential–descriptive and evaluative–imagistic layers of meaning in these compounds and identify their speech actualization mechanisms.
The methodology integrates semantic–typological analysis, encompassing denotative–referential parameters, compositionality, valency features, taxonomic relations, and pragmatic–connotative markers. The research corpus includes official, publicistic, and literary texts exceeding 15,000 pages, yielding 8,310 target combinations via continuous sampling.
Results show that the referential–descriptive layer links units to extralinguistic reality through intensional and extensional features, whereas the evaluative–imagistic layer relies on lexical intensifiers, metaphorical models, legal nominations, and target-oriented syntax. Grammatical collocation models (Adj+N, N+N, N+Prep+N) serve as precision tools to enhance interpretive clarity. The scientific novelty lies in conceptualizing this two-layer semantic organization and parameterizing functions that integrate naming and evaluation. The findings offer practical value for corpus linguistics, terminology, and translation studies.
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