Ptukha V. National and Cultural Semantics of Clothes Nominations in the English and Ukrainian Languages

This thesis offers a new approach to the comparative and contrastive study of national and cultural semantics pertaining to the nomination of clothing items in the English and Ukrainian languages. The research reconstructs the original motivation of clothes nominations in English and Ukrainian and reveals an internal motivational basis for semantically transposed metaphorical and metonymical clothes nominations with national and cultural components pertinent to these languages. Peculiarities of word-forming derivation of these nominations have been elucidated. An external motivational basis of clothes’ secondary nominations formed through the transfer of clothing items’ names onto other lexical domains in the English and Ukrainian languages has been determined, while national and cultural specificity of idiomatic clothes nominations for both languages has been established