Osovska I. Contemporary German Family Discourse: Cognitive and Semantic, Communicative and Pragmatic Dimensions.

Dissertation investigates cognitive and semantic, communicative and pragmatic dimensions of contemporary German family discourse. The peculiarities of family discourse are outlined in the varieties of discursive practices of the German ethnic communities. The sphere of concepts of the family discourse types and variants is represented according to the new complex methodology of the cognitive mapping with the usage of the statistical methods of verification in the cognitive maps. The structure of the metaconcept FAMILIE is reconstructed. The variety of verbal objectivizers of the system of concepts of contemporary German family discourse is characterized, the word-formative, onomasiological and motivational characteristics of the units of family lexicon are determined. The relevant discursive acts, preferential tactical methods and means of their language expression are systematized. Dominant role-play and psychological characteristics of the participants of contemporary German family discourse are def ined.