SEMANTIC NOMINATION SCHEMES OF FOOTBALL TEAMS AND PLAYERS (COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CONTEXTUAL SYNONYMS IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH)
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2020-2-21-28
Introduction. In this article we study the secondary nominations of football teams and players in English and Russian, which are created by contextual synonyms (CS) and follow specific semantic schemes identified by us in the result of the research on football texts. The purpose of this research is to study semantic nomination schemes in English and Russian in order to establish similarities and differences in the processes of nomination and reference in the researched languages. Material and methods. The object of this study is football discourse. We looked at football coverages, articles, reports, interviews and live-text commentaries. We did not distinguish between different genres of football texts since our main focus and research subject was contextual synonymy that creates plurality of nominations. The main research methods are contextual-semantic analysis of nominations, discourse analysis, descriptive, comparative and contrastive methods. Results and discussion. We identified the schemes of secondary nomination of football teams and players that reoccur in football discourse “travelling” from one text to another. This can be indicative of relative versatility of these schemes for multiple football discourse texts. We compared the English semantic schemes with the Russian ones, identified by us in our previous research. We discovered 14 equivalent schemes common for both languages. In addition, we looked at schemes that differ in certain ways in the researched languages, or are missing at all in one of them. Conclusion. In both English and Russian, there are multiple contextually synonymous nominations of football teams and players, which follow similar semantic schemes. However, each of the languages under study shows its specific nature when it comes to forming some nominations due to structural and systemic differences of the languages. The knowledge of these schemes, especially their differences proves useful in teaching and practice of translation and interpretation, and also in journalists’ and commentators’ praxis.
Keywords: contextual synonymy, contextual synonyms, nomination, semantic nomination schemes, contextualsemantic analysis of nominations
References:
1. Akbayeva F. N. Semantiko-stilisticheskiye i funktsional’nye osobennosti kontekstual’nykh sinonimov kak primerov variantnoy nominatsii [Semantic-stylistic and functional aspects of contextual synonyms as examples of alternate nomination]. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta – TSPU Bulletin, 2018, no. 2 (191), pp. 41–47 (in Russian). DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2018-2-41-47
2. Goal.com: football news, live scores, results & transfers. URL: https://www.goal.com/en-us (accessed 20 August 2019).
3. Football games, results, scores, transfers, news. Sky sports. URL: https://www.skysports.com/football (accessed 20 August 2019).
4. Football – BBC Sport. URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football (accessed 20 August 2019).
5. Football – News – Eurosport. URL: https://www.eurosport.com/football/ (accessed 11 September 2019).
6. Football & Soccer. Latest Football News – Daily Mail. URL: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/index.html (accessed 11 September 2019).
7. Football news – transfers, fi xtures, scores, pictures. The Sun. URL: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/ (accessed 11 September 2019).
8. Planet Football – A celebration of a beautiful game. URL: https://www.planetfootball.com/ (accessed 11 September 2019).
9. Akbayeva F. N. Nekotorye osobennosti angliyskikh futbol’nykh tekstovykh onlayn-translyatsiy [Some features of English football live-text commentaries]. Universitetskiye chteniya – 2016. Materialy nauchno-metodicheskikh chteniy PGLU. Ch. 2. Sektsii 1–3 simposiuma 1 [University readings – 2016. Proceedings of scientifi c-methodological readings PSLU. Part 2. Section 1–3 symposium 1]. Pyatigorsk, 2016. Pp. 11–16. (in Russian).
10. Akbayeva F. N. Zaimstvovaniya v futbol’nykh tekstakh kak istochnik sinonimii [Borrowings in football texts as a source of synonymy]. Stilisticheskiy aspekt anglo-russkikh sootvetstviy: mezhvuzovskiy sbornik nauchnykh trudov [Stylistic aspect of English-Russian correlations: inter-university collection of scientifi c works]. Pyatigorsk, PSU Publ., 2018. Pp. 3–12 (in Russian).
11. Akbayeva F. N. Sinonimiya v russkom futbol’nom subdiskurse [Synonymy in Russian football discourse]. Molodaya nauka – 2016. Materialy regional’noy mezhvuzovskoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii studentov, aspirantov i molodykh uchenykh [Youth science – 2016. Proceedings of regional inter-university conference of students and young researchers]. Pyatigorsk, 2016. Pp. 8–12 (in Russian).
12. Akbayeva F. N. Kontekstual’naya sinonimiya kak osnova mnozhestvennosti nominatsiy [Contextual synonymy as a basis for plurality of nominations]. Lingvistika XXI veka: traditsii i novatsii [Linguistics of the XXI century: tradition and novation]. Pyatigorsk, 2016. Pp. 175–181 (in Russian).
13. Akbayeva F. N. Kontekstual’naya sinonimiya v protsessakh kontseptualizatsii i yazykovoy aktualizatsii (na materiale angliyskikh futbol’nykh tekstov) [Contextual synonymy in conceptualization and language actualization processes (study of football nominations)]. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta – TSPU Bulletin, 2019, no. 4 (201), pp. 57–65 (in Russian). DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2019-4-57-65
14. Belov V. A. Sinonimicheskiye otnosheniya v yazyke i vyskazyvanii [Synonymic relations in language and utterance]. Vestnik Novosibirskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta – Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin, 2017, no. 6, pp. 263–280 (in Russian). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15293/2226-3365.1706.16
15. Boldyrev N. N. Yazyk i sistema znaniy. Kognitivnaya teoriya yazyka [Language and the system of knowledge. Cognitive theory of language]. Moscow, YaSK Publ., 2018. 480 p. (in Russian).
16. Pynn G. Pragmatic contextualism. Metaphilosophy, 2015, vol. 64 (2), pp. 26–51. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12120
17. Kovaleva E. K. Kontekstual’naya sinonimiya v diskurse informatsionno-tekhnicheskikh blogov kak sredstvo realizatsii klyuchevykh kontseptov [Contextual synonymy of information technology blogs discourse as a way of concept representation]. Vestnik Kemerovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta – Bulletin of Kemerovo State University, 2014, no. 3, vol. 1, pp. 167–170 (in Russian).
18. Putyatina E. I. Kontekstual’naya sinonimiya v tekste i ego diskurse [Contextual synonymy in text and its discourse]. Vestnik Kostromskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta – Vestnik of Nekrasov Kostroma State University, 2016, no. 4, pp. 148–152 (in Russian).
19. Bel’kova A. E. Kontekstual’nye sinonimy kak stilisticheskoye sredstvo vyrazitel’nosti v yazyke poezii V. A. Mazina [Contextual Synonymy as a stylistic expressive means in Vladimir Mazin’s poetry]. Vestnik Nizhnevartovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta – Bulletin of Nizhnevartovsk State University, 2014, no. 4 (in Russian). URL: http://vestnik.nvsu.ru/arhiv/39/412.pdf (accessed 14 August 2019).
20. Belov V. A. Realizatsiya teoreticheskikh podkhodov k sinonimii v metodike russkogo yazyka [Implementation of theoretical approaches to synonymy in the Russian language methodology]. Uchenye zapiski Petrazavodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta – Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University, 2018, no. 1 (170), pp. 91–101 (in Russian). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.16
21. Nartey M. Football in computer-mediated discourse: A move analysis of match previews. Linguistik Online, 2018, vol. 89, no. 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.89.4274.
22. Georgalou M. Scoring a hat trick: nation, football, and critical discourse analysis. Rice Working Papers in Linguistics. Rice University, Houston. 2009. Vol. 1. P. 108–141. URL: https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/21851
( 469.52 kB ) 
( 462.61 kB )
Issue: 2, 2020
Series of issue: Issue 2
Rubric: COMPARATIVE AND CONTRASTIVE RESEARCH
Pages: 21 — 28
Downloads: 1351