Burak V. Verbalization of family stereotypes in Ukrainian, Polish and British realist prose of the second half of the 19th century.

For the first time in Ukrainian ethnolingustics, the semiotic criteria for identification of stereotype verbalizers of various degrees of formation (of different strength / culturally reflecting potential) were established on the basis of artistic realist texts. The correlation between the nominative and communicative functions of means of stereotype verbalization was settled in the paper (we distinguish nominative and communicative stereotype verbalizers); the features of stereotype verbalizers of different structural complexity and different degrees of formation. The method of cognitive definition by delineating the width of reference of communicative senses, which refer to the constituents of conventional notion of different structural complexity and abstractedness (i.e. to characteristics, statements and inferences), was improved. The thesis also covers the evolution of approaches towards linguistic nature of the stereotype and the methodology of research of this phenomenon in ethnolingustics. The advisability of using artistic texts as a material for ethnolinguistic research is substantiated. There are 6 nominative forms which refer to stereotypes of varying strength: non-derivative word, derivative word, phraseologized word combination, semantically connected word combination, paroemia, semantically connected sentence.