Popik I. Lexico-semantic field "gesticulation" in language and speech (on the material of English distionaries and text)

The process of secondary semiosis that occurs in verbal definition of paraverbal proto-sign. The aim is a complex research of lexico-semantic field "gesticulation" in the English language and speech from the point of view of verbal semiosis. The employed methods are: descriptive, quantitative, componental. The detailed analysis of the sign essence of the kinema as a unity of from and content was undertaken for the first time. The thesis offers profound approaches to the theoretical problems of reference and contains original observations in the sphere of paradigmatic research of English Vocabulary. The results of the work may be used in the theoretical courses of language communication, ethnic and cultural studies. The sphere of usage - higher school