Kobzev M. Lexical repetition in English and Ukrainian.

The thesis is devoted to the comparative investigation of lexical repetition in English and Ukrainian literary discourse (based on the works by the 20th-century authors J. Fowles, A. Murdoch, V. Shevchuk, V. Drozd). The classification of lexical repetition is based on five criteria according to which all the lexical repetitions fall into linear-proper types, functional types, linear-structural types, structural-component types and semantic types. The linear-structural types of lexical repetitions used in literary texts of the languages under investigation include the initial repetition, the final repetition, the adjacent repetition and the circular repetition. The dominant subtypes are the final repetition in English and the initial repetition in Ukrainian. The semantic types and means of manifestation of lexical repetition inherent in the discourse of the analyzed languages involve the semantic-identical, semantic-synonymic, semantic-antonymic subtypes, the generic-specific concepts repetition, the semantic-thematic repetition, the lexical and semantic repetition, the semantic repetition proper, the variable repetition. The dominant semantic type is the semantic-identical lexical repetition. Structurally lexical repetitions can be divided into one-component, bi-component and multicomponent lexical units, with the number of the one-component lexical units prevailing. Lexical repetition is a variety of the universal language category of repetition integrating the linguocognitive, communicative and pragmatic, linguo-semantic aspects of the speech activity in the languages under analysis. Keywords: repetition, lexical unit, lexical repetition, discourse, structural type, semantic type.