Roslytska M. A precedent name in political discourse: formal semantic features and sociopragmatic potential (based on the speeches of the presidents of Ukraine, Poland, and France at the end of the twentieth − early twenty-first centuries).

The thesis is devoted to the complex study of formal-semantic and sociopragmatic features of precedent names in the texts of political speeches in Ukrainian, Polish, and French. Based on the developed theoretical model and applied methods, it justifies the need for studying the content of precedent units as a prerequisite for further analysis: content indicators illustrate source spheres of origin and thematic groups within their limits, which help to distinguish between universal and national precedent units. The revealed content characteristics made it possible to study the formal semantic signs of precedent names: nominative variants, structural semantic models, derivative productivity, and semantic variation. The analysis of the sociopragmatic properties of these units elicits their ability to be the agents of influence, ideology markers, and tools for constructing identities in presidents’ speeches. The results of the study were partly included in the dictionary ‘Universal and national precedent names in the speeches of the presidents of Ukraine, Poland, and France: 1991-2016.’ The results obtained in the thesis regarding common and distinctive signs of precedent names at the level of content, forms, and functions brought to light in the process of a comprehensive study of these units in political speeches reveal the nature of precedent names as being a synthesis of universal and national components. However, these findings require verification in other genres of political discourse and more languages. In this, we see the prospect of research.