Stuhanets Y. Semantics, structure and functioning of football vocabulary in the Ukrainian literary language at the beginning of the XXI century.

The thesis is dedicated to the study of the semantic, formal, structural and functional parameters of the football vocabulary in the Ukrainian literary language at the beginning of the XXI century.Today football is a social and cultural phenomenon without national boundaries. Naturally, that in the vocabulary of the Ukrainian literary language the group "Football" has been formed as the result of a long object and conceptual nomination in this field of sport.The peculiarity of the language of football is that it aims at a narrow sphere of communication of specialists in this sector and a wide range of participants of football communications, including journalists and fans. Soccer vocabulary is a vocabulary for describing objects and concepts from the sphere of football, which functions both in professional and unprofessional language. To indicate the professional sphere the concept "Language for Specific Purposes" is used as the most common in the English language.Football vocabulary that functions in the language for specific purposes includes terms of football area, extradisciplinary terminological units, terminologized common lexical units, nomenclature, professionalism and professional jargon. In unprofessional language (in the media, fiction, spoken language) football terms are determinologized, acquiring new meanings.