Andrusyak I. Late Twentieth Century Neologisms in English as a Component Part of the World Language Picture

The thesis is devoted to the study of late twentieth century neologisms as a component part of the world language picture as well as the discovery of English native speakers' linguocreative activity peculiarities, verbal devices of his or her adaptation to the world around. The linguistic analysis in it is based on the data collected from the English dictionaries of new words and phrases edited at the end of the 20th and the very beginning of the 21st century.The study aims at endeavouring to describe nominative and conceptual spaces of the neological world picture of the English speaking society in the given period of time and exposing nominative means of new knowledge structures. The thesis also aims at tracing the way human conceptualization and categorization are represented in the vocabulary as well as the method this vocabulary can be analysed from the cognitive point of view.Chapter 1 characterizes the basic theoretical principles of conceptualization, categorization and cognitive linguistics underlying the present study.Chapter 2 is dedicated to revealing those fragments of the extralinguistic reality on the basis of neologism conceptual analysis which were cognized by English native speakers at the end of the 20th century. Neologisms and corresponding concepts have been grouped and represented in the form of cognitive models and categories which are regarded as exhibiting a new scope of verbalized knowledge - the neological world picture (NWP). The latter is viewed as a component part of the general world picture of the English speaking society being the result of its bearers' intensive cognitive activity. Thus, the NWP may be regarded as one of possible ways of conceptual reperesentation of verbalized knowledge in human mind which itself reflects the connection of things and phenomena in the real world.Our primary concern in this chapter is revealing the nominative potential of each category and sector model. The analysis has demonstrated that this potential is far from being homogeneous and depends first of all on their importance for human life and activities.