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LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY IN THE FOCUS OF THE MENTIOLOGY THEORY

Tetіana Kosmeda

Information about the author: Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University

e-mail: tkosmeda@mail.com

Vira Kalinichenko

Information about the author: PhD in Philology, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes, Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University

e-mail: kalinichenko.v@donnu.edu.ua

https://doi.org/10.37919/2221-8807-2023-7-6 

Title: LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY IN THE FOCUS OF THE MENTIOLOGY THEORY

Rubric: TERM AND LANGUAGE PRACTICE. PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE PERSONALITY

Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The objective of the paper under consideration is to display the formation and development specifics of  the linguistic terminology associated with the linguistic mentiology formation issue. Since language reflects reality as  it is, or as individuals want to imagine it, which they want to project, then it is quite logical that the language makes untruth verbalized, fake (untrue) concepts get fixed, and corresponding terms emerge in the academic and  general discourse. One can definitely observe the modeling of the terms system for describing language (speech)  facts, processes and phenomena, which when being nominated have a basic semantic component representing the  untruth (false/lies) concept. This semantic constituent, in particular, is formally (explicitly) covered by means of  quasi-, pseudo- elements and expressed implicitly by means of the corresponding semes in the term semantic  structure, which represent the untruth (false/lies) concept. These include: false, unreliable, untrue, distorted, unreal,  disinformation, disguising, fictitious, fantasy, imaginative, paradoxical, exaggerated, understated, belittled,  concealed, one that reflects part of the truth, one that substitutes one for another, one that does not correspond to  reality, one that contradicts the original meaning, one which can only be assumed, one which conceals the true  meaning. Most of the above mentioned terms that outline the mentiology term field belong to monosemantic and one-word structure terms, a smaller part of them can be regarded as polysemantic and multicomponent by their  structure. Within the terms system under consideration homonyms emerge, some terms expand their meaning, which is not yet registered in current dictionaries of linguistic terms. The terms analyzed primarily belong to the metalanguage of lexicology (quasi-synonyms, quasi-synonymy), onomastics (names distortion, pseudonym),  orphemics (quasi-inflection, pseudo-motivation), morphology (quasi-grammeme), syntax (evidentiality and its  counterpart category, quasi-sentence, pseudo-question), communicative linguistics (truth criterion, sincerity  riterion, truthfulness maxim / postulate, pseudo-communication), text linguistics and discourse linguistics (quasi-discourse, quasi-text), linguistic stylistics (catachresis, quasicontrast), etymology (pseudo-etymology),  sociolinguistics (quasi-ethnonym, pseudoethnonym). The issue discussed has broad prospects for further research:  the mentiology terms will need systematic fixation and being processed by lexicographers.

Keywords: linguistics of lies, mentiology metalanguage, terms with semantic representation elements of untruth  (false/lies) concepts, terms with formal quasi- and pseudo components.

Legend
ССЛ-1 – Zahnitko, A. (2012). Slovnyk suchasnoi linhvistyky: Poniattia i terminy [Dictionary of modern linguistics:  Concepts and terms] (Vol. 1–4). (Vol. 1). Donetsk: Vyd-vo DonNU (in Ukr.).
ССЛ-2 – Zahnitko, A. (2012). Slovnyk suchasnoi linhvistyky: Poniattia i terminy [Dictionary of modern linguistics:  Concepts and terms] (Vol. 1–4). (Vol. 2). Donetsk: Vyd-vo DonNU (in Ukr.).
ССЛ-3 – Zahnitko, A. (2012). Slovnyk suchasnoi linhvistyky: Poniattia i terminy [Dictionary of modern linguistics:  Concepts and terms] (Vol. 1–4). (Vol. 3). Donetsk: Vyd-vo DonNU (in Ukr.).
ССЛ-4 – Zahnitko, A. (2012). Slovnyk suchasnoi linhvistyky: Poniattia i terminy [Dictionary of modern linguistics:  Concepts and terms] (Vol. 1–4). (Vol. 4). Donetsk: Vyd-vo DonNU (in Ukr.).

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